One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

I’ve always compared the act of writing to getting a kite to fly. That’s how it feels to me: running headlong into a kind of energy, hoping that the voice of this poem will fly. Though it ...