Why is poetry important?
I was talking to a music promoter
about the economics of poetry the other day. We were talking about the
economics of poetry and he asked, “why does anyone take that in school. Why
would anyone be interested. Here’s a guy that makes his living from selling
other people’s poetry/songs and he just didn’t get that the reason people buy
his tickets is the same reason that people read poetry and want to write it and
song. Because it makes the audience FEEL good, or right, or sad, or enraged, or
sexy, or sassy, or whatever. . . But poetry and song have the same function. It
makes us FEEL. And this is a very good thing for people, and for communities,
and societies, and civilizations. Poetry makes us more civil.
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