Basho -”the beggar, the old man, the outcast, and the traveler”…the Odysseys?
Machi Tawara: Now I see where Rupi Kaur might have gotten her inspiration. Instead of old forms, she writes poetry about everyday, relatable emotions -small, easy-to-digest pieces of text broken into poetic lines (and achieved immediate success upon first publication - millions of copies sold).
Beichman: I found this quote from Masaoka Shiki to be very useful poetic advice - "You must not stop when you have managed to extract one or two poems from some broad view. Next you must look down at your feet and write about what you see there—the grass, the flowers in bloom. If you write about each, you will have ten or twenty poems without moving from where you are. Take your materials from what is around you—if you see a dandelion, write about that; if there is mist, write about the mist. The materials for poems are all about you in abundance".
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