Poetry Month Prompt #8

April 8: 

Sometimes ending a poem is difficult because we learned that endings were a type of summary. But how do you end a lyrical poem? about letting chance decide and visit https://www.languageisavirus.com/poem-dice/. Roll the dice and use three of the six words in your ending, making the end a non-sequitur on the surface but a deeper understanding of your poem. 

From the Muse Library: The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner. “In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry’s greatest haters (beginning with Plato’s famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.