“The Creative Drive” by Catherine Barnett (poetry ’02)
An excerpt from “The Creative Drive” by Catherine Barnett (poetry ’02), published by the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day feature.
The Creative Drive
A recent study found that poems increased
the sale price of a home by close to $9,000.
The years, however, have not been kind to poems.
The Northeast has lost millions of poems,
reducing the canopy. Just a few days ago,
high winds knocked a poem onto a power line
a few blocks from my house.
I had not expected to lose so many at once.
[…continue reading “The Creative Drive” at the Academy of American Poets.]
