Translate, Don't Copy

  This is not like photocopying a photocopied photocopy. What I am talking about are these rounds of pickleball that Kevin and I are engaged in. Hi-def mos def.   I create a poem. 2. Kevin responds on YouTube [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUHZBYcfVU[/embedyt] 3. I racket back with some good ol’ pingpong style ‘English’.  Translated:  I ripped…

I have been slowly re-reading Ted Hughes’ series of BBC “programmes” on poetry.  They were designed for teen and tween listeners. Yeah, right. Hughes’ book is the only text you need for a life built around poetry.  For example, I am reading a chapter now called “Capturing Animals”. He argues that I think of poems…