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Ada Limón Reads Jennifer L. Knox

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Navigating the Modern Love Poem

The speaker discusses writing a modern love poem that delves into sharing the bad before the good. Although not a sonnet, the poem's length and structure resemble a sonnet albeit with a playful twist. The speaker expresses admiration for sonnets but acknowledges the temptation to overuse rhyme due to a natural inclination towards it.

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