Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine

Contents
Introduction / Don Share
It Is Nothing like That / Richard Rapport
Better Speak / Hank Willis Thomas
Out There / Lili Taylor
The Madness of the Gods / Helen Fisher
Love Jones / Natalie Y. Moore
All My Heart for Speech / Roger Ebert
They Could Croon / Archie Rand
One- Track Mind / Leopold Froehlich
The Necessary Fluster / Naomi Beckwith
Poetry, Daily / Mary Schmich
Knowing Nothing / Jia Tolentino
Four Walls / Iain McGilchrist
A Place for Poetry / Roxane Gay
Romance and Reality / Lt. Gen. William James Lennox Jr.
Haiku Economics / Stephen T. Ziliak
Green I Love You Green / Nalini Nadkarni
The True Nature / Tracey Johnstone
The Idea of Order / Alex Ross
Para Rumbiar / Fernando Perez
Lucid, Inescapable Rhythms / Nicholas Photinos
“Two Loves I Have . . .” / Alfred Molina
Written in Rock Candy / Momus
To Hell with Drawers / Will Oldham
My Life Is a Poem / Rhymefest
Loosening the Grip / Jolie Holland
Word’s Worth / Rob Kenner
My Flaming Hamster Wheel of Panic about Publicly Discussing Poetry in This Respected Forum / Neko Case
Poetry Out Loud / Sally Timms
Poetry Is Useless / Anders Nilsen
Poetry Is a Dumb- Ass Spider / Lynda Barry
Wild Unrest / Kay Redfield Jamison
The Fire of Life / Richard Rorty
Gloriously Undone / Matt Fitzgerald
Debris / Jerry Boyle
On the Road with Wallace and Wystan / Josh Warn
Everything Moves to Live / Xeni Jardin
Earthward / Amy Frykholm
Happy, Snappy, Sappy / Daniel Handler
Like, a Noticeable Amount of Pee / Michaelanne Petrella
On Poetry / Ai Weiwei
Imperfect Recall / Christopher Hitchens
Dust and Stones / Etienne Ndayishimiye
Imagining Freedom / Mariame Kaba
Sarajevo Blues / Aleksandar Hemon
Reporting Poetry / Jeffrey Brown
Like Soldiers Marching / Rachel Cohen
Rama Stores / Pankaj Mishra
To Speak with Many Tongues at Once / Omar Kholeif
How with This Rage / Chris Hedges
Acknowledgments
Contributors