Ten Things I Learned from Stanley Plumly

Lyric poems begin in the middle and end in a different part of the middle.
The truth is what you say it is.
Poetry is essentially made up of two things, the moment and memory.
The last thing you want to be when you write a poem is a poet. Be a person.
A love poem is another form of loss.
Beware of epigraphs. They’re competition.
If you’re not a loser, you’re not writing good poems. The poem is the winner.
Poetry is not like other screw ups in our lives. It can be changed.
It’s OK. You can be happy. Just don’t impose it on your poem.
God does not write poems. He doesn’t need to.