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Lee Rudolph's avatar

Thank you for this!

I am being somewhat slow in getting my old and new poems onto my newish website. The most recent addition, "Broken villanelle on two lines of Delmore Schwartz", went up last December. https://leerudolph.substack.com/p/broken-villanelle-on-two-lines-of .

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

It seems like things always take longer than I think they should!

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Lily Tobias's avatar

Thank you for sharing this insight into your process! I love seeing how the poem arose and became what it was meant to be ❤️

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

Thank you for creating such a fertile space for poems + poets to grow + flourish.

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Ann Collins's avatar

You made a your case, beautifully! Thank you for the generosity of sharing your notebook. I'm always curious to see how poems arrive and change.

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

So honored to have you as a reader, Ann. Peace keep you.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

"Why is there something instead of nothing?" That's the question I submitted. But somehow I lost connection with the Poem Farm. ???

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

Well, of course I love that I answered *your* question! I hope the poem was satisfying on some level.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

On every level, the poem is lovely. As I should have said in the first place.

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