“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook Here are the diverse, thought-provoking and engaging responses to the last Wednesday Writing Prompt, the transformation […]

via “After Reading How Poets Often Die …” . . . and other poetic responses to the last Wednesday Writing Prompt — THE POET BY DAY