Neither in pools of snowmelt,
nor in schools of orderly ideas,
do poems collect;you’ll find
them on the free range of the
imagination, where hell is a corral,
and you ride a feisty mustang.
Dave Read
Ars poetica
The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.