Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Poetry Hoax
The modern poem often says believe in me begs you to the poem does it dares you not to believe in it whispers ignore me at your peril or is that there is it that the modern poem pretends not to care and the poetry hoax takes care to appear it's not pretending. All good poets know what all good poets do that poetry doesn't really matter and in this way is the most important thing in the world thank you thanks urn malley.
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