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Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

Do You Dare Write a Poem With All the Lines?

i like a poet who can get me to sort of contemplate, like, whouldh you dare write a poem with all the lines? One line has three words on ind another line has 12 words on it. I've been accused of having short lines, so i think i feel you. But there's something you can get a poet's sensibility, even by something like that line, horace. Even a visual way that we want our poems to appear says something about our our sensibilities.

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