The hottest punctuation mark today is the em dash. From that of steadfast devotees, for whom it is a mark of erudition, to that of the less inclined, for whom it is only incidental to their ...
A poet I know, reluctant to define what poetry can or can’t be, once suggested (somewhat facetiously) that a bag of dirt could be a poem if the poet deemed it so — calling to mind Marcel Duchamp’s ...