Saturday, June 13, 2009

"No Pause for Breath" Camille Dungy on the One-Sentence Poem



Camille Dungy

No Pause for Breath

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I was talking to a friend today about one-sentence poems I love.

By one-sentence poems I don’t mean very short poems like the one-line poems Michael McFee discussed in his Feb. 2008 article in the AWP Writer’s Chronicle. McFee has written a whole book made up of monostich (The Smallest Talk), and so he is likely much interested in the form and its function. That is an interesting line of inquiry (pardon the pun), but not what I’m talking about when I mention one-sentence poems here.

Read the entire post here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/no-pause-for-breath/

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