What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
Poetry requires only a writing surface & tool (or device); it’s a very accessible art form. But it can also draw us so close to the structures of language and teach us how to be mindful, critical, suspicious of them. It helps us think about scale and stillness and movement. Other art forms can do these things too, in different ways, sure—but I’m pretty partial to the space of poetry, what others have called the field, the compositional field, the sense of possibility, even if you’re writing a poem about how inescapable something like the Western medical complex can feel.
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