Tuesday Tips: Can You Teach an Old Poem New Tricks?
(dog, sleeping, image by jevansch, on Pixabay) Can you teach an old poem new tricks? Let’s say you have a poem that’s been around a while, maybe you’ve submitted it once or twice, but no one’s snatched it up. (There’s no accounting for taste.) Do you stuff it back in a drawer, move it to the “don’t hold your breath” file, or—try to make it better? As writers we need to be honest with ourselves. Are we willing to change what we’ve written? Not just remove a word or add a comma