How to write an "after" poem that builds off of another writer's work without ripping them off. Today we explore the tough tightrope of "after" poems. Let's find a space where we find inspiration within another poem in order to create a larger link of intertextuality without writing something so similar that it infringes on the other poem.

Today's example poem is "Everything Will Be Taken Away" by Morgan Parker.

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