Graeme kindly offered to MC! Poems: Otherwise by Jane Kenyon; Mending Wall by Robert Frost; Once the world was perfect by Joy Harjo; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne; Did I Miss Anything by Tom Wayman
I love Graeme's criteria for what he LIKES in a poem:
Clear
Precise
Strong
Brief, even terse
Tells a story
Accessible—most people can understand it
Substance over style
Unpretentious
Elegant
Emotionally arousing
Feelings not just facts
Powerful imagery
Defined or implied audience
Sense that the poet has a purpose
and also what he DOESN'T Like
Preachy
Taking an easy, popular position—sucking up
Birds, bees, clouds, and flowers
Ugly words or construction
Too long—a page is plenty
Foreign words or expressions that most people wouldn't know
Insensitivity to rhyme and rhythm
Pretentious formatting or construction
Snobbishness
Superiority or contempt
Needless vulgarity
Style over substance
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