JUST WRITE POETRY
A free collection of contemporary poetry & resources.
REFERENCE
"Poetry is inherently disruptive. Poems slow us down, resist easy paraphrase. They ask us to embrace ambiguity, to accept uncertainty.That's a feature, not a bug; it's inherent in the art form."—Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko
GETTING STARTED
"The trouble began when I decided to be dangerously ambitious. Which is to say, I decided to write a poem."—Ocean Vuong
ARS POETICA: Poems About Poetry
“left hand, right hand
like an open eye, an eye closed:one hand flat against the trapdoor,
the other hand knocking, knocking.”—Aracelis Girmay
AUBADES
"Will there ever be a morning? Is there such a thing as day..."—Emily Dickinson
THE POETIC LINE
"Every line of a poem must be a poem."—Ralph Waldo Emerson