Outside the Script Poetry

Outside the Script Poetry

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Methods: The Interior Method

How to put the reader inside the experience rather than outside it

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May 23, 2026
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Most poetry describes.

It stands at a slight remove from the experience — observing, reporting, translating. The poet felt something, and now renders it in language for the reader. Even the most visceral poetry tends to operate this way. There is a narrator. There is a perspective. There is a distance, however small, between the experience and the account of it.

The Interior Method tries to remove that distance entirely.

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