![]() ![]() During difficult times like these, I turn to poems to be reminded of all that is possible." Yet also, observes Alex Dimitrov, whose latest collection Love and Other Poems came out in February, " Poetry helps me all the time, regardless of what's going on in the world. As author Maggie Smith tells Oprah Daily, "It’s been a claustrophobic year-our lives shrank considerably-but poetry is about expansiveness. Poetry is perhaps even more important now, in an unprecedented time of loneliness, of missed connections. ![]() We are connected soul to soul by stanzas and verse. "You can't plan on the heart," Frank O'Hara once wrote, "but/the better part of it, my poetry, is open." (In fairness, O'Hara also once wondered whether he should have been a painter instead.) Poetry captures what's so often ungraspable, articulates what's so often hard to put into words, expresses our outrage and our pain (and our love), and gives us the tools to praise the sublime. ![]()
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