Giving Poetry A Chance

To celebrate National Poetry Month, today’s post will focus on the importance of poetry as a literary and artistic form. While I was a student at University, I was lucky enough to take a modern poetry class under the tutelage of Trinidadian-Bahamian poet Christian Campbell. As an ardent poetry lover (and sometimes, writer of poetry), I went into the class excited and curious. Poetry is often an underrated or underappreciated art, and I think this is because there is a correlation with shortness of length to lacking substance. A poem, generally, is much shorter than a novel, as well as…