What is poetry?

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

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?

What is poetry…