Red's Poetry Inquiry Project
"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." -Dead Poets Society
A project investigating the modern poetry community and its literary practices.
About the project:

The poetry inquiry project is a project for my First Year Writing college class dedicated to the study of the methodology of modern poets, as well as their overall literary practices. It has a focus on analysis both of other poets' work, as well as of my own personal poetic work. The goal is to become a stronger poet myself, with a broader knowledge base to draw upon in my writing.

Directory of pages:

  • Home: You are here! The central navigation point for the site.
  • Blog: Here's where I put poems I have written during the timespan of this project.
  • Interviews: Interviews with poets about their processes.
  • Analyses: Analysis of poetry by authors I enjoy.
  • Highlighted Poems: Poems I found in the wild and liked enough to want to shout out.
  • Concluding Statements: The conclusion to this inquiry project.
  • About Red: Many written works have an about the author; here's mine!
    • Highlighted Poem:

    "Death comes to me again, a girl" by Dorianne Laux

    Blog Posts:

    ICARUS AND ARIADNE; OR: CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHERS

    Writing this poem came from thinking about how Ariadne and Icarus share similarities, and also how Icarus shares similarity with the Minotaur--both trapped in the labyrinth Daedalus built. It's been a while since I wrote a prose poem, and this one let me venture into that final area of practice for this project. The don't you know? no i don't is left purposefully blurried between who says what: these people reflect each other in care for their parents who failed them. There is also the thread of the game Ariadne is playing, ending as she faces the loss of that innocence and trust in their fathers. I also had one of my almost hallmarks of my poetry, with a hard hitting final line built up to through the poem.