It Takes a Thief: What to Do When Your Own Words Feel Tired

In The Sacred Wood T.S. Eliot says, "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion."

In this workshop we'll learn how to thieve.

Jack Martin, 2002 recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts fellowship, has had poems published widely in such magazines as Ploughshares, Agni, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, and River Styx among others. His work also appears in March Hares: The Best Poems from Fine Madness 1982 - 2002.

Email: jacktheelbow@yahoo.com
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