Craft: Draft Diagnostics

Bell, Rilke, Cooper, Knott, Kunitz

A finished poem is also the draft of a later poem.—Marvin Bell

One of the dictums of writing is that “there is no such thing as writing, only rewriting.” Revision is often the place where writers get stuck; once the germ of the idea is on the page, their subjectivity gets in the way. They can’t improve it, don’t know what to change, and can’t see its pot…