On Poetry
Poetry
Is How We
Speak Ourselves
Into Existence.
Copyright © 2017 by Andru Defeye. From Illicit (2017). Used with the permission of the poet.
You are enough
Inspired by our 2021–22 cohort, sixteen regional poet laureate fellows from our 2022–23 cohort composed another exquisite corpse examining the role of a laureate in the community. Each laureate fellow received only what the poet before them had written and had to write a stanza responding to that. The starting questions were: What is a poet laureate? What does one do?
In the back of the moving truck
When the door shuts
And it all goes dark
And the engine starts