Craft: Practice

Grossman, Coltrane, "A History of Ota Benga," Lowell

Poetry, like any craft, can be practiced. Any poem can be made better, and practice is the way to do it. I believe love is best expressed through action; ironically I believe this even though words are my way of understanding anything.

Beginning from the position that poetry is a process, then practice is the way to invest this love. Allen Grossman put …