Why is poetry important?
To me, poetry is important because it is a questioning, a wondering, a searching. The poem is a site of discovery -- of oneself, of one’s understandings of life, the universe, and everything… Poetry is important because not only does it first engage the writer in authentic questioning, asking them to gently dismantle their view of the world and reconstruct it in a beautiful way, but it also engages the reader. When poetry is successful, it makes you feel something in your bones, behind your eyes, wherever your truth hides… Poetry finds your truth, yanks it up by its hair, and screams at you to see it. Whether or not we’re ready for that truth, we know it’s there, inside of us somewhere, and somewhere else somebody else figured it out, and maybe we can too. And I think feeling that connection to something big is important, to remind people they’re not alone.
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