Why poems are suddenly everywhere

In an emergency: break here for poetry

When no one knows what to say, we turn to poems.

I was struck by this in the wake of the election last week. I woke up, and social media was so awash in poetry that it felt like someone had cut open a thousand books and let their pages sprinkle down on the streets below.

I posted a Wendell Barry poem “The Peace of Wild Things.” My friend

Erica Berry

shared “Poem (…