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We gather together in Coffee shops, Pub back rooms, Theater spaces art galleries sometimes even living rooms to speak verse to listening ears. It's what we live for, we wordsmiths. We find ourselves in the undulating gaze of an audience, validate our art on the mics and stages of venues as much as we do the Pages of books and magazines. The stages are quiet now. We find ourselves asking if a poem, unspoken, in a closed book, in an isolated room, is still a poem? VerseFirst is trying an experiment. To invite poets to read for an audience, they can neither see nor hear. I'm inviting poets to ...

VerseFirst’s Flagship Podcast. Why Poetry? dedicated itself to exploring questions of poetics, the socio-politics of poetry, how poems end up in the forms and places they do. Interview lead audio essays, hosted and produced by ThinkWriteFly featuring a growing selection of the most vibrant and talented voices in UK poetry, Criticism and Academia.