<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>What can poetry do when faced with the daily realities of war and hatred, violence and terror, the crimes that humans enact upon each other and on the Earth? A cynic would answer nothing, would condemn the personal lyric as pure solips<wm>ism and good of the status quo of society and culture but, for a visionary, the answer would be different. Every war creates some poetry.
Poetry, I said this to Michael Jordan and to the scholars of the University, I said to the military personnel on those that are serving, I said to the women and men and girls of every culture that has witnessed violence and injustice. We are going to keep telling the story through music. We are going to keep telling stories through painting, through dance</wm> and art.
Poetry, I said this to the marginalized, the oppressed and the least among the