"What is the difference between a group of words and a group of words considered poetic? The poem..."

“What is the difference between a group of words and a group of words considered poetic? The poem will be an interruption. The poem will be the bridge home. The patterns that we discover and tell, as sure as jazz drum solos, cut through the dictatorship of inhibiting thoughts, lies and anxieties that keep your attention and expression away from your love and wisdom; that keep us away from each other. That keep millions incarcerated, and millions more incarcerated in the open air. That keep state and state sponsored violence in charge. Who better to interrupt the ruling class program than the poet?”

- More from Tongo Eisen-Martin, interviewed in the Poetry Question. Come see him read tonight!