"I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form."
- Billy CollinsAmerican poet Billy Collins, who is renowned for his approachable and conversational style, has offered writers and readers alike insightful perspectives on the craft of poetry. One of his observations centers on the notion that writing poems with limitations can result in more potent and significan…