The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction

I’ve been struggling with a poem over the last few days, something to put together for submission. I have an ambivalent relationship with poetry–at least when I try my hand at it. I prefer the modernists. End-rhyme makes me nauseous. Sentimentality gives me the hives; and yet poetry can do so much, and sentiment matters…