Lisa Bellamy’s Poem “Thank You for the Tulips” Featured in LitHub’s On the Craft of Writing
“Thank You for the Tulips,” a Pushcart Prize-winning poem written by Writers Studio teacher Lisa Bellamy, was recently featured in LitHub’s “On Beauty and Its Opposite: On Writing Toward Aesthetic Force.”
This essay was part four of a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. Read the essay for more about how Bellamy powerfully conjures love, regret, and guilt in a poem that doesn’t, as the essay authors note, redeem the narrator, but does “invite…[the reader] into the complexity of her love and guilt without being told what to think.”
