Poems Out Loud–a site well worth investigating–published today an interview with poet Ron Egatz. I couldn’t agree more with the man’s first answer, copied below.
POL: In what direction would you like to see American poetry move?
Egatz: I’d like to see the continued trend of readers and listeners coming back to [poetry] …. We’ll never [...]
“I think ideally I would like, in a poem, to operate by way of suggestion, to say only enough to enable the perceptive and wide-awake reader to have his or her own experience or interpretation of some things I might have felt, noticed, thought about–and a renewed sense of awe at his or her own [...]
Maybe in a million years
a better form of human
being will come, happier
and more intelligent. A few already
have infiltrated this world and lived
to very much regret it,
I suppose.
It is midnight, or almost.
Out in the world the wind stretches
bundles back into itself like a hundred
bolts of lace then stretches again
flows itself over the windowsill and into the room
it scatters the papers from the desk
it is in love with disorganization
now the manuscript is on the floor, and reshuffled
now [...]