Sometimes the poems get larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes they only offer silence, but it’s not planned, it’s all an experiment as I go.
Ada Limón
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The PEN Ten, interview with Caits Meissner, June 2, 2022; Complete 23-word sentence in answer3 on discovering a poem’s form through experiment. Full original interview read via web; saved cache is a labeled excerpt only. Interview prose, not quoted poetry.
- The PEN Ten, interview with Caits Meissner, June 2, 2022
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