A Close Reading of a Life

Ren Powell
3 min readMar 23, 2022

Creating a Visual Poetry Memoir

The more difficult things become — subjectively — the more I want to make beautiful things, and the more frustrated I become with my lagging craftsmanship. I spend evenings in the studio staring at the paper. Judging. I should have invested more time here. Been patient with myself. I understand now the absurdity of impatience.

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Ren Powell

Poet, Playwright & Teaching Artist. ✎ Ren’s website is renpowell.com - madorphanlit/substack.com