Whirled Through a Poem’s Eye

Questions of "I" in poetry in this brief excerpt from my book Always With the Questions: One Poet's Writing Manual, wordworksbooks.org.

Advice from the dead in this poem by Kathryn Petrucelli.

Signs and significations in this Larry Levis poem.

The physics of essential confusions in this poem by Elizabeth Zuba.

Testing truths with this poem by Elizabeth Hazen.

Life and death in this poem by Bertha Rogers.

Trying to trace meaning in this Gustaf Sobin poem.

The power of breaking things in this poem by Allison Zhang.

Ghosts in Migwi Mwangi's market.

The first person to die in the American Revolution, or so we're told: Crispus Attucks and the tinderbox that was Boston, in this poem by Jay Wright.