Poetry for the Good of All

". . . poetry is necessary to the health of our democracy. We are suffocating under a cloud of noxious language use. . . .It's hard to fight free of that, but poetry can help by giving us language that excites and moves us. Poetry encourages us to look into our own word hoard and reclaim the words and images that live like an underground stream in our imagination." -- Kathryn Stripling Byer