Poetry Collections

It seems appropriate on this, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's birthday, to mention a new article in The Writer magazine, Falling Into Place. It provides ten tips to help arrange your poetry with a purpose to shape your collection into a cohesive, lyrical manuscript. During the last year or so, I've been gathering, selecting, and rearranging endlessly the poems I've written over the last 40 years. I'd always intended to publish a collection titled What Wine Goes With Hot Dogs? It became a chronicle of a relationship, birth to death. Somewhere in the middle, musing on motherhood, comes one poem with the lines:

Composing in my best Ferlinghetti,
(tomorrow for dinner we must have spaghetti)

Amusing doggerel, I know.

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