Poem of the Week | June 01, 2015
Weston Cutter: "One Art"
This week we feature a new poem by Weston Cutter. Cutter is from Minnesota, teaches at the University of St Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is the author of You’d Be a Stranger, Too and All Black Everything.
Author’s note:
I remember writing this poem, and enjoying how weird it was, but can’t recall *why* I went with it. I can look back and see that the poem began about a month into my wife’s second pregnancy, so that may’ve had something to do with it, but I’m fairly sure that’s just a rationalization. I know the very very start–the literal first few lines–came from exhaustion (I’m sure I felt like I was repeating myself), and from me remembering the start of Hicok’s “Bars Poetica,” which is a poem I’ve always liked for its blunt start, though now, going back and finding it online, I see I’ve misremembered even that.
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