Friday, July 18, 2008

Kay Ryan: New U.S. Poet Laureate

A new poet laureate remarks that "Poetry should leave you feeling freer and not more burdened . . . . I like to think of all good poetry as providing more oxygen in the atmosphere. Poems just make it easier to breathe."

1 comment:

M. Dotson said...

That poem does just what Ms. Ryan would have it or maybe it was the sudden tropical rain cloud passing over head blowing air through the screen door confusing me, but I'll claim confidently that it was the former.
In any event, well placed in a world where patience as a word, much less as a virtue, has become as quaint as a doily.