![]() ![]() It makes you keep looking, or do a double-take if it didn’t hit you at first. ![]() I think of the experience of reading poetry as akin to going to an art museum: you walk around, looking at everything, not reading every plaque but just glancing at each thing, and then you come across one thing that stops you. I earned an MFA in nonfiction, not poetry, and I wonder if I’d done all that required reading in poetry if I’d be as burned out on poetry as I was in nonfiction after graduation. ![]() 2020 Great Group Reads Selection CommitteeĪndrea: I think the reason so many feel intimidated is because the way poetry is widely taught is opposite of ideal: close-readings of poets deemed great by people who probably don’t look like us, asking us to decode the poem like it’s a puzzle to solve, and to ponder what the poet meant or was thinking rather than what it made us feel or think. ![]()
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