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What is poetry?

How would you define poetry? Keep reading, then leave a comment to join this dialogue. [Ed. from the Archive.]

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K. E. Creighton
Oct 29, 2025
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Is poetry a feeling? A state of being? An ellipsis? An idea partially or wholly materialized with ink or digital space on a page? Or is it something else a little more or less tangible? Perhaps. Because poetry is more than mere word conditions and arrangements and positions and omissions on a page and off the page of memory via memory. No?

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