Goines On: Poetic invocation

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The daughter of Goines’ high school teacher who had been instrumental in Goines’ learning about casting out 9s asked him by email if he enjoyed writing. He wondered why she had to ask that question, because she was familiar with his blog and ought to know the answer.

    But as soon as he started to word a reply, he remembered what he had titled his first published paper, and the remembering set off fireworks in his head: “Invoking the Muse of Technical Writing.”

An Ode to My Muse

Luis Morris: “Artist’s Muse” 2009

By Moristotle

[On May 12 I submitted this poem to Highland Park Poetry’s Summer Muses’ Gallery – ODES. Though I told Jennifer Dotson at the time that “I think it worthy of submission,” I wasn’t sure it was, nor even sure it qualified as an “ode.”
    Today, however, I received an email from Mary Beth Bretzlauf, an associate of Jennifer’s, that “We selected your poem ‘An Ode to My Muse’!” I guess it IS an ode! It was fashioned from my April 7 lyric poem, “When Your Muse Whispers.”]