“What would happen if everyone started writing poems? If every one was writing good poems? Wouldn’t that be something. Think of it: everyone writing poems, like driving a car, pushing a baby along in a stroller, waving to the neighbors, second nature kind of stuff, easy as breathing in and out. Everyone. Poems. Everywhere. Everyone.”
Excerpted from Paulann Petersen in “Writing and Hierarchy: The Trouble with Good, Better, and Best” online at the Writer’s Dojo.












