Structure & Surprise

Here is a terrific (and frightening) new elegy inspired by the discussion of the elegy in Structure & Surprise.

Thanks to D. A. Powell for such a fine essay on the elegy; to Patrick Phillips for such a lovely, haunting poem (here is a cool version of it); to Kim Addonizio for her support of the turn (at the retreat, and elsewhere, including teaming up with me to co-edit Voltage Poetry); and, last but not least, to Claudia Mills for her own new, strong poem.