It’s National Poetry Month in The U.S., And Poet Laureate Tracy Smith Has Some Things To Say

First of all, she has a daily podcast called The Slowdown (which honestly sounds perfect for a poet). She says that poems “remind us of what we feel. They bring language that may not have existed for us before that can be applied to … what’s going on inside. I also really like the way that when you read a poem with someone else, those feelings and thoughts become part of a conversation. And so, in my mind, poems are really great at bringing us into what feels like a real and meaningful kind of engagement with other people.” – NPR