I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of persona…

“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.”

Diane Wakoski · Poetry

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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

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I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

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