Mike Young—

“… poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action …” — (from Audre Lorde’s 1978 essay “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” an essay Carolyn Zaikowski showed me during discussion of Sandra Simonds’s “Poor Poetry Mothers” which Roxane posted earlier).