I was a lousy student, and I would make a worse teacher. I come to poetry as a rhapsode or scop, a memorizer and reciter of verse. I don't think critically about poetry, either my own or anybody else's. So it is a pleasure to host a great teacher like Clive Watkins. Clive teaches me things about my verse I could never figure out on my own. That's why I asked him to bring his formidable acuity to bear on some of our non-met offerings. I am "with child" as they say to see his thoughts on lineation, because I think his rivals that of any poet writing today. And I thank him for this great service to the Sphere.
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