National Poetry Month: How is a sonnet like the suburbs?
Quick Read By Elizabeth Lund Correspondent Craig Morgan Teicher knows a bit about finding beauty in the mundane. The poet and critic hopes his latest collection, “Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey,” will encourage readers to do the same. “I think the experiment for me in the poems was to see if the drama of a ‘boring’ life can be brought forward. That if I could narrow the frame enough, that something as simple as staring at a bush could become a high-stakes event,” says Teicher. Why We Wrote This To Craig Morgan Teicher, “poetry is a vast conversation spanning thousa...
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