http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/reading-my-old-poems/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:15:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/reading-my-old-poems/#comment-550 kwame Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:28 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=260#comment-550 Tara, things do change. I gain more confidence, but mostly, my skills improve in such a way that I am actually able to calm some of the anxiety and uncertainty. In that sense, this art is like all art forms, like all sports. Eventually, you know what you can do and you find some assurance in that. But the doubt for me never disappears completely. Which is just fine. Tara, things do change. I gain more confidence, but mostly, my skills improve in such a way that I am actually able to calm some of the anxiety and uncertainty. In that sense, this art is like all art forms, like all sports. Eventually, you know what you can do and you find some assurance in that. But the doubt for me never disappears completely. Which is just fine.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/reading-my-old-poems/#comment-549 Tara Betts Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:06:39 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=260#comment-549 Yes. It feels like looking back at growing pains, and I'm wondering do you ever really finishing getting them? Yes. It feels like looking back at growing pains, and I’m wondering do you ever really finishing getting them?

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/reading-my-old-poems/#comment-548 Lisa Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:49:45 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=260#comment-548 Thank you Kwame. It helps to hear an experienced poet say that doubt is always a persistent force in a writer's life. I'm a young poet at 25 going on 26, and I can't wait until the day that I write poems that can be called poems and I am proud of them. Thank you Kwame. It helps to hear an experienced poet say that doubt is always a persistent force in a writer’s life. I’m a young poet at 25 going on 26, and I can’t wait until the day that I write poems that can be called poems and I am proud of them.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/reading-my-old-poems/#comment-547 Marie-Elizabeth Mali Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:29:56 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=260#comment-547 Thank you for this post, Kwame. As someone who's been studying her ass off for the past couple of years, seeing shifts but not yet solidly in gear, I appreciated reading this. Marie-Elizabeth Thank you for this post, Kwame. As someone who’s been studying her ass off for the past couple of years, seeing shifts but not yet solidly in gear, I appreciated reading this.
Marie-Elizabeth

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