Craft: Poetry is a verb

Tsvestayeva, Keats, Paley, Morrison, Guston, Celan

Can poetry affect change?

One often hears that “poetry speaks truth to power” or that “poetry is a political act.” But if that’s the case, then how is it that poetry failed to prevent the catastrophes of Trumpism and Covid-19? All these poetry books keep appearing every year, the way coat hangers appear in one’s closet, yet as I write this the United St…