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August 24, 2016
 

Ars Poetica

 
Leslie McGrath
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About This Poem

 

“I wrote ‘Ars Poetica’ with my students in mind, nudging them away from pursuing a poem as a goal, encouraging them to be more comfortable with uncertainty.”
—Leslie McGrath

 

Leslie McGrath is the author of Out From the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014). She teaches at Central Connecticut State University and lives in Essex, Connecticut.

 

 

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