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This section collects famous historical essays about poetry that have greatly influenced the art. Written by poets and critics from a wide range of historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives, the essays address the purpose of poetry, the possibilities of language, and the role of the poet in the world. They are arranged in chronological order.

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ESSAY ON POETIC THEORY

Selections from Hopkins’s Letters

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

1864

To Alexander William Mowbray Baillie Sept. 10. 1864. Dear Baillie,— Your letter has been sent to me from Hampstead. It has just come, and I do a rare thing with me, begin at...

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Cracks in the Oracle Bone: Teaching Certain Contemporary Poems

BY BRENDA HILLMAN2006

I’m thrilled to be presenting a lecture honoring Judith Stronach to many colleagues and friends, and I’m grateful to Ray for publishing this series of lectures by poets—I feel fortunate...

Sight-Specific, Sound-Specific . . .

BY NATHANIEL MACKEY2005

Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets. Performance art, poetry slams, and the like have made the term synonymous with theatricality, a recourse to dramatic, declamatory, and other tactics...

Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation

BY ANNIE FINCH2005

Even at this late-postmodernist moment, when self-defined innovative poetry needs to build on a long tradition of previous self-defined innovative poetry, such poetry still defines itself in opposition to tradition....

Invisible Architecture

BY BARBARA GUEST2000

                 There is an invisible architecture often supporting    the surface of the poem, interrupting the progress of the poem. It reaches into the poem in search for an identity with the...



The Poetics of Disobedience

BY ALICE NOTLEY1998

For a long time I've seen my job as bound up with the necessity of noncompliance with pressures, dictates, atmospheres of, variously, poetic factions, society at large, my own past...

Use This Word in a Sentence: “Experimental”

BY ANN LAUTERBACH1998

In May 1998, the critic Michael Brenson organized a symposium at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York at which a number of people in the arts were asked to consider...

Someone is Writing a Poem

BY ADRIENNE RICH1993

The society whose modernization has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalized...



The Rejection of Closure

BY LYN HEJINIAN1985

“The Rejection of Closure” was originally written as a talk and given at 544 Natoma Street, San Francisco, on April 17, 1983.(1) The “Who Is Speak­ing?” panel discussion had taken...

The Triggering Town

BY RICHARD HUGO1982

You hear me make extreme statements like “don’t communicate” and “there is no reader.” While these state­ments are meant as said, I presume when I make them that you can...



The Flower of Capital

BY MICHAEL PALMER1979

      (sermon faux – vraie historie)       . . . and the old dogmatism will no longer be able to end it.       ADOLFO SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ The flower of capital is small and...

The Fire

BY ROBIN BLASER1967

especially for Ebbe Borregaard (1)   I am writing here about my poetry in relation to poetry. The writing had an occasion: for a few in San Francisco, where I read it...

Some Notes on Organic Form

BY DENISE LEVERTOV1965

For me, back of the idea of organic form is the concept that there is a form in all things (and in our experience) which the poet can discover and...



200 Years of Afro-American Poetry

BY LANGSTON HUGHES1965

Poets and versifiers of African descent have been publishing poetry on American shores since the year 1746 when a slave woman named Lucy Terry penned a rhymed description of an...

California Lecture: from “Poetry and Politics”

BY JACK SPICER1965

THOMAS PARKINSON:(1) I think we can start the lecture now. This seems to be old home week. We have Jack Spicer with us, as we have off and on now...

Vancouver Lectures: from "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'"

BY JACK SPICER1965

JACK SPICER: Well, I really ought to explain the structure of the three lecture/readings, more than is on the flyer that some of you saw. Essentially what’s going to happen...

The Mind’s Own Place

BY GEORGE OPPEN1963

Sargent is reported to have said to Renoir that he painted “cads in the park.” And Sargent was of course quite right.(1) The passion of the Im­pressionists to see, and...


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