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Poetry
Craft Drafts

This is a list of my craft drafts, essays that talk about a poem I'm writing and show how I revise it. The essays focus on iterative revision, as in, they show previous drafts and often multiple revised drafts before settling on a more final poem.

A smoke break with Tina Turner

Techniques this craft draft focuses on:

  • Blackout poetry

  • Reinterpreting song lyrics

  • Multi-step language translation

Xenomorph Blood

Techniques this craft draft focuses on:

  • Antonymic translation

  • Allusion

  • Tone and mood

Small Bird

Techniques this craft draft focuses on:

  • Sonnet

  • Irony and puns

  • Narrative structure

  • Emotional language

Pygmalion Advises His Student

Techniques this craft draft focuses on:

  • Meta-art (art about making art)

  • Allusion

  • Irony and puns

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