Why Write Poetry?

Have you ever asked yourself why you write poetry. Many reasons have been given and much written as to why we write poetry and what is its purpose. I like and have made personal to me the statement by the poet Wallace Stevens that, 'poetry is a means of redemption'. What he meant was, that poetry awakened within us our God-like powers, powers to recreate the world through imagination.

This has been taken on special meaning for me, and poetry is for me now a means of redemption...a bridge as Hart Crane reminds us in his poem of the same name, that takes us to new vistas, new worlds, new experiences and the worlds that lie beyond. Like gods, we can fly.

I look forward to seeing how your imagination takes you across the bridge.