bang-bang

Poet, bang it out.

giant killer

A haiku that could humble a poem of a hundred lines.

speed writing

Often we recognize poetry by its language speed.

stopping place

By etymology a ‘stanza’ means stopping place. So think twice before you go on with the poem from there.

missing matter

A poem that seems to have three times as many words than it has.

multum in parvo

The phrase multum in parvo has always had a special significance for me. In its terse and compact Latin diction, it exemplifies exactly what it connotes: much in little. The archetype of brevity, however, is not easy to define. Abstraction, conciseness, symbolism, and imaginative potential are basic in the concept. A multiplicity of detail is concentrated into a unified principle, the particular is transformed into the universal, a largeness of meaning is conveyed with the utmost economy of means. This largeness of meaning should be accomplished by a dramatic impact, in a word: insight with a gasp.

—Carl Zigrosser, Multum In Parvo (George Braziller, 1965)

less is core

For a poet, 'less is core'. If I can't say it in a page, I can't say it.