“for meaning beyond this world”
Poetry teaches us how to listen, and poetry helps us know things, like urgency, tenderness and the value of each story.
Category: What poetry teaches us
Some notes about what poetry teaches us & what we gain from reading
“on the other side is what?”
In high school, this kind of angst made me a normal teenager. Now, however, with arthritis in my knuckles, reading glasses on my nose and crepe-paper skin around my knees, this kind of angst just makes me stuck.
“until it is done having feelings”
I have no idea where the capacity to drop down into things went, or why it decided to return, but it *is* returning. The “read 100 poems in 12-ish months” effort is accelerating it, for sure. Coming back to the joyful, careful reading of poetry books — and taking time to make some personal notes about each — is helping me find my voice again.