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“I am unfamiliar with the craft of poetics—line break, rhyme, meter, image. What I do know is that when I read poetry, good poetry, I forget to breathe and my body is suffused with something unnameable—a combination of awe and astonishment and the purest of pleasures.” — Roxane Gay

“ Poetry taught me how to write everything but poetry. Poetry teaches me that I basically know nothing, and that acknowledging this position is a beginning and never an end. “ — Jia Tolentino