Lives of the Poem -- Community and Connection in a Writing Life

Lives of the Poem provides some original and creative ways of thinking about these questions: --What is poetry? --What is the nature of the relationship between poetry and the culture and community it arises from and dwells in? --What is the nature of the relationship between the poet and the poem, and vice versa? --What does "doing poetry" or "being a poet" look like? --How much "real life" can get into a person's poems? --To what extent are our poems shaped by our relationships and connections with others, especially others who are writers? --What makes poems good?