What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
The inaugural poet is an example. Elegies are another. Poetry brings people together, a community. A few semesters ago I brought to my students a book of poems by a poet I’d assigned to the class and each read a few lines aloud, then passed the book to the next until all had read by turns to the end of the poem. A moment of shared solemnity, wonder and delight in poetry.
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