Poetry Today: Molly Spencer and Cynthia Atkins « Kenyon Review Blog
The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. INTRODUCTION Being a poet has taught me the value of practice and patience. I have learned that my next poem will reveal itself to me if I simply follow language by engaging with it through my (mostly) daily reading and writing practice and if I wait for that small, persistent thing—a scrap of language, an image, a question that won’t leave me alone—that opens a door in my mind. I’ve also learned that—for me, at l...