{"id":19168,"date":"2026-04-12T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=19168"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:27:22","slug":"revision-as-a-poets-superpower-with-tom-c-hunley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/12\/revision-as-a-poets-superpower-with-tom-c-hunley\/","title":{"rendered":"Revision as a Poet’s Superpower with Tom C. Hunley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Revision as Cooking<\/s>, Revision as Childrearing<\/s>, Revision as Midwifing<\/s>, Revision as a Poet’s Superpower with Tom C. Hunley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A draft of a poem isn\u2019t a broken thing that needs fixed. It\u2019s not a clear, rational argument that needs a little cleaning up, a little editing. It\u2019s a missive from another world that has thus far been only partially-translated.  Or, as writes Philip Metres in \u201cThe Art of Losing (and other Visions of Revision),\u201d \u201cYour work is not full of mistakes, and it\u2019s not broken. It\u2019s just not itself yet\u201d (62). Bingo. That bag of flour and that egg? They\u2019re not a bad cake. They haven\u2019t failed you on your birthday. They\u2019re just not a cake yet. A draft is nothing but the ingredients for a poem, lined up and waiting for the skilled chef to go to work. But there\u2019s no definitive recipe, either, because each poem, if it\u2019s good, is a new thing that has never existed yet. It\u2019s a bird, not a birdhouse, as Dean Young tells us in The Art of Recklessness<\/em>. A poem is something wild and mysterious that is trying to be born, and your arsenal of revision skills may make the difference, for the poem, between living and dying. Please note – This is a revision workshop, so please bring a draft of a poem.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom C. Hunley is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, eight chapbooks, two textbooks, and two produced films. He and his wife of twenty-nine years have four amazing kids. Right or wrong, he believes he has impeccable taste when it comes to literature, film, music, and the one woman who has his whole heart. He seriously lacks inner resources, and he\u2019s almost certain that his liver is diseased. He despises generative AI, groupthink, the tortured language of propaganda, big government, and bloated bureaucracies, especially in universities. He has published poems in journals with names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Atlanta Review<\/em> to Zone 3<\/em>. He is currently working on a novel and a memoir-in-flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, May 12, 6-8pm EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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