Why is poetry important?
What a giant question to put in a mini-interview! Here is a very partial answer.
One reason for poetry (and perhaps for art generally) is this: it adjusts our grasp. My tendency is to want to hold onto everything and everyone I love so tightly. There are also times, though, when I am all hurry and let things slip by too unnoticed, not loved enough. And poetry (reading it but perhaps, even more, writing it) loosens my deathgrip on the things I am afraid of losing. And it keeps me, at other times, from letting beauties and wonders fall through my hands.
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