If poetry is concerned with creating experiences, perhaps this...

If poetry is concerned with creating experiences, perhaps this is what links it to the idea of performance. Just as actors aim to provoke emotion or convey feeling and ideas through tools such as gesture and body language, so too do poets aim to assemble feeling, albeit through the artefacts of words drizzled on a page; or text represented on a canvas-like computer screen; or type patterned onto objects; or projected, ephemerally, in a space.

- from my review of Jane King’s PERFORMANCE ANXIETY and Pamela Mordecai’s SUBVERSIVE SONNETS at The Caribbean Review of Books.