Craft: Creating poems that appear simultaneously spontaneous, yet inevitable.

Coleridge, Justice, Williams, Baudelaire, "The Old Record," "Phonograph Blues"

Writing a poem requires us to do a difficult task: to balance opposites (sense vs. music, immediate experience vs. tension and electricity of language, the writer vs. the speaker). When we begin writing a poem all we can know is that there is a poem. We enter its space, but we cannot yet know what it will be; the right relationship between its form and …