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Things Worth Paying Attention To
“Poetry is the history of emotions.” Someone, not me, said that. A poet writing 30 Poems in November named Julie Cavacco just sent me that quotation, and it raised the lid on the Pandora’s box of what is poetry, a question I don’t engage with unless someone pins me to the wall and asks me point blank. OR I’m pinned against the wall with a bad draft of a poem I’m in the middle of but can’t see a graceful way out of and wish that I’d started somewhere else.
November 6, 2025
