In Erica Hunt’s poems, the reader/audience is “meant to be legible,” which is to say the poem is conscious of itself as a voice–sometimes several voices–speaking to a listening ear. Write a poem that is vocally fluid (i.e. entertains multiple speakers), but remains in direct dialogue with the reader/listener throughout. Who’s listening? Who has things to say to that open ear?

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