You'll find that and more about careers in academe in our Career Network. Fifteen poets responded in kind. For me, for example, if the movie star goes to the bathroom I feel better about the movie. Bathroom time, thoughts, needs and events, after all, contribute the fragments that altogether we recognize as experience. Poetry is not literary criticism.
Poetry is far more entertaining.
It better be. Yes, I know that the fragment is the best representation of distraction and fracture. But that doesn't make it good poetry. The shattered glass is an eloquent emblem for our time, but it does not hold water and I am thirsty.