This story is about poetry. Don't stop reading. Take all the stuffy poetic constraints, the rigid ideas and preconceptions, the incomprehensible images and obscure references, and chuck 'em out the window.
Poetry is dead.
That, in a nutshell, is the world according to Geof Hewitt. He's a poet and poetry teacher who claims we're all poets, but don't know it. The Calais resident, who lives about 10 miles north of Montpelier, says poetry has gotten lost in an impenetrable thicket of writing rules and jargon and needs to be hauled back into clear sight. Hewitt has formed his own ideas about poetry over 30 years of teaching, reading and performing poems. It's a land where every person has an equal chance of success.