Monthly Archives: June 2011

Poetry Notebooks

I prefer to write poetry longhand, usually, at least for the first draft.  It’s not romanticism; it’s forcing myself to slow down a bit.  I’m pretty particular about the pen and the kind of notebook, too.  I like Moleskines, of … Continue reading

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Automatic Writing

I thought someone might find it interesting how I work at poetry.  I have several methods, so I’ll describe them in several posts over the coming weeks. Automatic writing is a method of writing at speed without thinking too much … Continue reading

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Second Person

I am Patrick Dunn, author of Second Person, a book of poetry about absence and presence, and how we approach the world as a “you” rather than an “it.” Second Person is currently available for preorder from Finishing Line Press.

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