“The paradox of poetry is that so many more people write it than read it. … Yet it’s no secret that reading widely and deeply is the one sure way to move your own writing forward. It’s how you learn what the possibilities are: what can be done with words, images, rhythm. Reading your contemporaries is a crucial part of that process: it’s how you invent a new wheel instead of laboriously reinventing the wheel of 20 or 30 years ago.”
Read Katha Pollitt’s arguement that “Poetry: Not Dead Yet.”
