left to right: Anastacia-Reneé, Emily Sieu Liebowitz, and jamie mortara STANTON STEPHENS, JOSHUA SIMPSON, JAMIE MORTARA
Poetry feels like an artform ill-suited for our current era. As we untangle the threads of multiple #MeToo investigations or seek reason from the people in power, we grasp at direct communication. But that’s also why we need poetry more than ever: We need it to calm our rattled nerves with shocks of beauty and cold frissons of truth. We need to look at some experiences through the multi-layered meanings of a poem.