Poetry Today: Trust and Idealism « Kenyon Review Blog
Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Matty is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he is pursuing a PhD in English. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator. INTRODUCTION Write patiently and read generously. The sustainable poet quickly learns patience, whether that be in the writing process and the arc of an individual poem or the hellscape that is the submissions process. As a young writer, I allowed my desire for affirmation or belonging to lead me to submit work that I now (and perhaps then) understa...
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