News at Eleven: You write meaningless poetry,

of course it's not going to have any effect on the world, and so the thing to do is to establish your meaningless poetry as a standard, to write poetry that caters only to the obscure and self-indulgent. A poet can do so much more, and if you travel around the world you see the effect that a poet can have on their society. [--Martín Espada]

from The Brooklyn Rail: A Bard from East New York: MartÍn Espada

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