“Poetry presents an opportunity to go both inside and outside oneself. The invitation to see something in a very different way—to enter into a sensibility utterly unlike your own—is an inherent invitation to experience your own reality differently. The self is challenged in encounters with others—poetry has the power to disturb default understandings of the self and others. In making the world strange we become strange to ourselves and this strangeness creates opportunities for growth and change.” Continue reading Interview with Mary Buchinger