Now Featuring Kathleen Flenniken

“I love going to poetry to walk in someone else’s shoes, to try on someone else’s life and see what that feels like. It’s a way of learning about the world that I would never otherwise know. Those poems, those books, need to keep being written so that we can learn and remember empathy. If we could just try to keep talking to each other—what worries me is when we become so polarized that we stop talking to each other. I think art of all kinds is essential to keeping those conversations going—poetry and also music and art help us describe what it’s like to be alive. I do think that builds empathy and we’re sorely missing that right now.”

Available now in Willow Springs 96!

Read the rest of the interview here.