Micro-post #38: The Imagist Amy Lowell [Pride Month 2025 #4]
- Alex Bemish
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
Updated: 1 day ago
A poet I've known about for a while, Amy Lowell is both well-known and not known enough. Since she's famous for drawing from her experiences as a lesbian, it feels fitting to make a post about one of her bigger non-poem contributions to poetry during Pride Month: the established "rules" for Imagist poets, which are...
To use the language of common speech …
To create new rhythms …
To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject …
To present an image …
To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite.
Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very essence of poetry.
A lot more about her can be found at the Poetry Foundation website, which also has links to a number of her poems that she published through Poetry Magazine. If you've never read anything by her before, I'm also including a podcast recording of one of her most famous poems, "Lilacs", as an introduction.
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