Writing Poems by Hand

My friend Sarah Wylder is doing a great project for National Poetry Month: she is writing poems by hand and posting them to Facebook. She tagged me with this poem by Anne Carson, Book of Isaiah, and I asked her if I could post it here. What I love is the power of copying poems by hand. It seems to me that that is how we learn about how poems work, not only through our eyes and through our mind, but physically, through our hands, through the act of writing.

When is the last time you copied another poet’s poem by hand?

Filed under: poetry Tagged: Anne Carson, hands, poetry, Sarah Wylder