POETRY FRIDAY: Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

Here is some advice from Archibald MacLeish about what a poem should be.

Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish

A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.


You can read the rest of the poem here.

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At Wild Rose Reader, I have an interview with children’s poet Joyce Sidman.

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at The Well-Read Child.