For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
From Mark Strand
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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