Why poetry?

photo by Elizabeth

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.

From Asphodel, that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams and printed by POETRY.

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By Elizabeth Oakley Weaver

Even as a kid I've said it doesn't matter if I live to be 150: this life will be the blink of an eye. Poet, author, visual artist, photographer, educator and lover of life (though still working on the hard parts like Covid, violence, inequity), I'm completing a memoir inspired by and largely about dogs and people.

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