I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is not to lie but to imagine what you want to follow the direction of the poem.