non-event

Sometimes a good occasional poem comes from an event the poet would otherwise have ignored.

get what you pay for

Most poetry events are free, so organizers can’t give a money-back guaranty.

poem event

Had the ability to make the reading of a poem an event.

three cubed

A poem is a triadic event, coinciding at a point where the poet, a world, and language meet. If any one of the three is absent from the text, the poem will be by definition insignificant.

then and now

The poem transcends its occasion and becomes a new event.

part of the whole

A good political poem manages to make the specific events that provoked it part of an ongoing universal struggle.

lyric event

Because of its brevity the lyric can be an event outside of artifice.