“Poetry isn’t a cure, and it isn’t a miracle. It won’t jump your car’s dead battery or fix your leaky roof. It won’t feed your baby or save your dying grandmother. But there are words, phrases, whole poems that—in the grimmest, loneliest, most shattered moment of my life—have offered me a lozenge of light.”
—Anndee Hochman, in “The Poem Chooses You” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2018)