Poetry Can Help
29 October 2001
Poetry Can Help
'Poetry stands up well in times of stress and national crisis because it is not trivial; it is the only record we have of human feeling. ... Some people are swept away by emotion, and poetry is a way of ritualizing emotion, putting it into iambic pentameter, into stanza. Poetry provides a container that will accommodate these emotions.'
US Poet Laureate Billy Collins in the Boston Globe
