“Letter to Steven Orlen” by Matthew Olzmann

A poem by alumnus Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears at Ampersand Review:

Orlen!! Just now, I was remembering, several winters
back, you were telling me that if you got stuck
while writing a poem, you’d try to make
a “random seeming, radical move” toward
a different subject, something to jar the work
onto newer terrain, and be sorted
out in later drafts. I like “newer terrain,”

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