Lives of the Poem: Community and Connection in a Writing Life

Lives of the Poem provides some original and creative ways of thinking about these questions:
--What is poetry?
--What is the nature of the relationship between poetry and the culture and community it arises from and dwells in?
--What is the nature of the relationship between the poet and the poem, and vice versa?
--What does "doing poetry" or "being a poet" look like?
--How much "real life" can get into a person's poems?
--To what extent are our poems shaped by our relationships and connections with others, especially others who are writers?
--What makes poems good?