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Method, read aloud.
Notes from the laboratory. The method, in English.
26 feb 2026·Poetic engineering
The carpentry of the line: five lessons in poetic engineering
Writing is not waiting for the muse. It is understanding the operators that hold the emotion, and adjusting the machine of the poem.
27 feb 2026·Driving idea
The method for developing your driving idea
The premise is the frame of a window. The work is to see the landscape behind it, and to narrate it with flesh, not with captions.
27 oct 2026·Method
Two ways of working
The mini workshop practices one tool. Mentorship stays with the work when one tool is no longer enough.
22 may 2025·Driving idea
The mirror of the poem
The driving idea is inside, and it is not available. The page does not translate what is already seen. It makes it visible for the first time.
12 nov 2024·Tension
Arch, bridge, trampoline, spring, and hook
Five devices so the poem can link, suspend, or make attention jump.
Clase·Image
The four components of the image
An empirical ground, an affective charge, a paradox, and a coherence that sits further down.
Clase·Suspense
Suspense is wanting to know
It is not a trick at the end. It is dosing what the reader does not yet know, and wants to know.
Clase·Voice
Poetic voice does not exist
There is no voice stored in a drawer, waiting to be found before you write.
27 feb 2026·Driving idea
The premise is the frame, not the landscape
The first sentence is a brick. It serves to open. Often it has to disappear.
27 feb 2026·Method
Improvise, compose, revise
The hard block arrives when you try to be a child and an architect in the same minute.
26 feb 2026·Craft
Do not train a single muscle
A new tool, used in every line, makes the poem hermetic. Deviation needs a place to lean.
Taller·Relief
Figure and ground
If everything sits on the same plane, the line has no relief.
Taller·Opening
The first line is a door
It is not an ornament. It decides whether the reader enters or stays outside.
Taller·Ending
The last line does not close the sense
Many texts loosen at the end because they explain what the poem had already done.
Podcast·Expression
If you do not bring it out, you do not know what you are
Expression is not an ornament of what is already known. It is the only door toward what does not yet have a form.
27 feb 2026·Image
Do not hand the reader a caption
"You gave me my self-esteem back" cannot be filmed. An action can.