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Kristine Neeley's avatar

Loved this! I've been reflecting a lot lately, upon my return to poetry, of my why. Shared some, in a post yesterday, of how my life has expanded, over time, because of it (or thus, contracted, without it). I think we all come to reading it and writing it for similar -- but often different reasons -- and that's a beauty I think I'm finally learning to appreciate!

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Lorna Rose Gill's avatar

Love this! "Poetry... / undoes me". There's a fabulous Nine Arches Press book called 'Why I Write Poetry' ed. Ian Humphries, full of essays and poetry prompts by different poets. The underlying thread is this feeling of being alien, of having an alien body and the only way to express what it means to live is to write poetry.

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