[New-Poetry] Prolific poetry

[AlMaginnes at aol.com]

Funny that this discussion comes up right after the obit of Jon Anderson, a  
poet who quit writing for almost twenty years is posted. For my own part, I've 
 always written a lot and published a fraction of that. I seem to be one of 
those  writers who has to write a lot of bad ones to get a few good ones. I've 
never  tried to write a poem a day or anything like that; I read some of 
Lehman's  output and it didn't strike me that he spent a significant portion of any 
given  day writing those poems. I do remember, some years back, reading an 
essay by  Robert or Ronald Wallace (I get them confused) about making himself 
write a  sonnet a day for a year. He had some hard and fast rules--he had to 
write one a  day even if he wrote two or four the day before. It had to be a 
sonnet, not just  fourteen lines of something. It seemed like there were a couple 
of other things  as well. As I recall he published a book with some of the 
best of these sonnets.  Write that many sonnets and you might end up thinking in 
sonnets. I will have to  see if I can find that book again. 



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