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I will teach a Blank Page Workshop:

"The first thing I notice about your poem --
very well written, by the way -- is that
it makes black marks all over the page --
really no longer blank. On the other hand,
it does leave much of the page blank,
cutting the blankness into neat ornate shapes
like a cookie cutter."

"I like this poem, but if it were cut
to the bone (and all poetry must be
cut and cut and cut...and cut),
it would leave more of the page blank."

"It's wonderful
the way the
skinniness
of your poem
brings out the
spacious blankness
to the right
of the page,
a vastness
in which the
soul may
luxuriate,
hearing your
distant
tiny
tenuous
lines from
afar,
a
trickle
of bird sound
in the
mist-muffled silence
of early
morning."

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