“A poem isn’t just an expression of all these things that you’re feeling. But it’s a set of choices that you’re making in language. So every description, every question, every statement, every turn, is a choice that opens up or closes off certain possibilities.”
Thanks, Joe. I look forward to her tenure as PL. I hope she is as visible in her tenure as Kooser and Collins were in theirs, out in the public view, sharing poetry with those who didn’t think poetry was for them any more, something left back in school.
Wonderful, Joe. Thanks for passing this on: I missed the interview.
Thank you for sharing this. What a treasure she is!