Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Elizabeth Alexander reads her poem, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, which we created to get grounded in reflection that will be with us the day after the U.S. election and far beyond, whoever wins. Find more of Elizabeth’s poems on our website, where we’ve recently launched an entirely new way to Experience Poetry.

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0:00.0	Our poetica 100 I believe written and read by Elizabeth Alexander.
0:08.4	Poetry I tell my students is idiosyncratic.
0:19.2	Poetry is where we are ourselves though sterling brown said every eye is a dramatic eye.
0:27.2	Digging in the clam flats for the shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook.
0:34.0	Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner over here on the bus, God in the details,
0:40.7	the only way to get from here to there.
0:44.6	Poetry and now my voice is rising is not all love, love, love, and I'm sorry the dog died.
0:53.6	Poetry here I hear myself loudest is the human voice.
0:59.8	And are we not of interest to each other?

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