What IS poetry?

What IS poetry? Poetry is about our stories—not about telling our stories, exactly, but inviting others to feel them, to feel emotions that are common to all humans. Trying to understand what a poem means or is about should take second place to emotion. In his treatise about the value of medium over message, Marshall McLuhan wrote that content is “like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watch-dog….” Continue reading →