01-05-2026, 01:55 AM
I connect titles to song titles on albums and set lists. I like to look at them in different orders and the poems themselves. And compare to bands' albums and live sets.
I read poems without titles, and they inspire my decisions to make poems where the title will be the first line, like I see in the table of contents in a poet's book.
Concept albums and looking at the way poets' books are structured, by editors and/or the poets themselves, are another level of context.
I've also made a series of poems with a gimmick where the title of each poem is a word in the poem, so the word simply appears in the poem, not at the top, and is in bold.
Most of the time, titles come first, and I make poems and stories around the title.
I read poems without titles, and they inspire my decisions to make poems where the title will be the first line, like I see in the table of contents in a poet's book.
Concept albums and looking at the way poets' books are structured, by editors and/or the poets themselves, are another level of context.
I've also made a series of poems with a gimmick where the title of each poem is a word in the poem, so the word simply appears in the poem, not at the top, and is in bold.
Most of the time, titles come first, and I make poems and stories around the title.