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Imagination Poetry allows us to envision futures beyond the present.
Tenderness Poetry helps preserve emotional openness in difficult circumstances.
Resistance Poetry can keep us from becoming numb, isolated, or dehumanized.

Nature Poetry reconnects humans with the living world.
Community Poems transform individual experiences into shared ones.
Public art Poetry belongs in parks, libraries, streets, schools, and etc
Accessibility You don't need specialized literary knowledge to enter poetry.

Attention Poetry teaches us to actually notice the world.
Loneliness Reading connects us with other minds across time.
Grief Poetry gives shape and language to suffering.
Language Poetry can resist language that has become distorted or manipulative.