CONTENTS

Don Share   Introduction

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Richard Rapport   It Is Nothing like That

Hank Willis Thomas   Better Speak

Lili Taylor   Out There

Helen Fisher   The Madness of the Gods

Natalie Y. Moore   Love Jones

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Roger Ebert   All My Heart for Speech

Archie Rand   They Could Croon

Leopold Froehlich   One-Track Mind

Naomi Beckwith   The Necessary Fluster

Mary Schmich   Poetry, Daily

Jia Tolentino   Knowing Nothing

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Iain McGilchrist   Four Walls

Roxane Gay   A Place for Poetry

Lt. Gen. William James Lennox Jr.   Romance and Reality

Stephen T. Ziliak   Haiku Economics

Nalini Nadkarni   Green I Love You Green

Tracey Johnstone   The True Nature

Alex Ross   The Idea of Order

Fernando Perez   Para Rumbiar

Nicholas Photinos   Lucid, Inescapable Rhythms

Alfred Molina   “Two Loves I Have . . .”

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Momus   Written in Rock Candy

Will Oldham   To Hell with Drawers

Rhymefest   My Life Is a Poem

Jolie Holland   Loosening the Grip

Rob Kenner   Word’s Worth

Neko Case   My Flaming Hamster Wheel of Panic about Publicly Discussing Poetry in This Respected Forum

Sally Timms   Poetry Out Loud

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Anders Nilsen   Poetry Is Useless

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Lynda Barry   Poetry Is a Dumb-Ass Spider

Kay Redfield Jamison   Wild Unrest

Richard Rorty   The Fire of Life

Matt Fitzgerald   Gloriously Undone

Jerry Boyle   Debris

Josh Warn   On the Road with Wallace and Wystan

Xeni Jardin   Everything Moves to Live

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Amy Frykholm   Earthward

Daniel Handler   Happy, Snappy, Sappy

Michaelanne Petrella   Like, a Noticeable Amount of Pee

Ai Weiwei   On Poetry

Christopher Hitchens   Imperfect Recall

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Etienne Ndayishimiye   Dust and Stones

Mariame Kaba   Imagining Freedom

Aleksandar Hemon   Sarajevo Blues

Jeffrey Brown   Reporting Poetry

Rachel Cohen   Like Soldiers Marching

Pankaj Mishra   Rama Stores

Omar Kholeif   To Speak with Many Tongues at Once

Chris Hedges   How with This Rage

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Acknowledgments

Contributors