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Sheetghost Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

What's haunting underneath the poems? Weekly prompts and short essays on poetry

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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Get Lost in the Metaphor

The Whale Beached between Scheveningen and Katwijk, with Elegant Sightseers, Esaias van de Velde, oil on canvas, 1617 (The Whaling Museum)

I had a middle school English teacher once who doggedly insisted metaphor was superior to simile: do...

7 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Colliding Historical Personas

from Walt Whitman, by Thomas Eakins, 1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Had a cool moment last week unexpectedly encountering a singular memory: on the Slowdown, Myka Kielbon began the show with a story about the time she and I went to see C...

14 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Rhyme, Constant & Contemporary

from “Otters Swimming”, Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92 (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

One of the most interesting things about language is that the sound contributes to the meaning. We know this is true for onomatopoeia, where the sound (ta-da!) i...

21 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: The Micro-season

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet, 1890-1891, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago

The funny thing about language is that it governs our perceptions. Once something has been named or described, it becomes all the easier to p...

a month ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Repetition as Perseveration

Moses and The Burning Bush, Keith Haring, 1985, acrylic on canvas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

I once had a poetry professor who hated multiple figurations for the same thing. If a poem compared, say, a lover’s hair to silk thre...

a month ago
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  • Robert Wood Lynn

    Poet from Virginia. Yale Younger Poets Prize & Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Poems in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation etc. I teach poetry sometimes at Juilliard, Bennington, Brooklyn Poets & Poets House.

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