They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point so of course I wrote poetry.
