The Griffin Poetry Prize each year fetes the importance of poetry with its annual award. We asked this year’s nominees two questions: What is the role of the poet during times of strife? And why do you turn to poetry: to save/comfort/anger/unify/act as a call to action? I like to keep the mystery inherent to poetry: I love its elusiveness, its ability to avoid big definitions or big statements. I turn to poetry because I have come to understand and depend on its pleasures.

Source: thestar June 15, 2022 16:51 UTC