Why is poetry important?
Because it’s something people need as badly as food or oxygen, though they may not know it until something happens in their lives to make them feel that need. I was just talking with a poet who writes “poems on demand” in public space and this really struck me: the extreme emotional responses people have when they experience a poem created just for them. Now there may be a lot of ways people are filling that need, or encountering poetry in whatever form (music, art… any kind of genuine experience that speaks to something at the core of one’s being) outside the classroom or anthology. But the need exists, for all of us.
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