The Chicken or the Egg? Content or Container? What Comes First?

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How a poem lays on the page is a topic, I admit, that fascinates me. First impressions are important. A first impression can stay with one for years—even if we later discover we were incorrect about assumptions we may have made during that first encounter. I know I can still remember the first time I saw the man who would later become my life-long love. My assumptions? I don’t remember those so much, except that he needed to style his … Read More »