Poetry pares excess noise, spin, and rhetoric, bares what’s untold or unheard, lends new perspectives by stepping into another’s shoes, unravels our own complicated stories.  But poetry does more than distill the essential. It’s company, a knowing nod on a rainy day, a glimpse of states of being, a light on what’s seldom spoken, meaning in the mundane. It’s the ah-ha of insight or humor pulled from a hat. A voice, loud and clear from past or present, preserved for the future. To be all these things it must be shared. Poetry has the power to illuminate, be it poetry from the greats, everyday gems sprinkled throughout the small presses, or the poetry groups and open mics of our communities.
For poetry samples, please follow the links in Poetry Links.