More Questions for Poets

Two questions that I retrieved from some previous notes and conversations:

1. "The role of poetry is to purify the language of the tribe." (Mallarme) -- How does poetry in the 21st Century relate to the emerging "language of the tribe"?
2. When you write a new poem, what do you want from it?

I also thought of a question on the road last night:

• Of what particular joy is poetry?

or a variant,

• What part of poetry manifests the most joy for you?

Maybe "joy" isn't the right word, but I think this last question may be close (though it does seem to be a bit wordy, for some reason).

I do hope to begin this project of asking five questions of poets some time in the next month. I'm still not sure if putting the questions and the responses on a separate blog would be more effective that posting the sets here.

If there is a lurker or two out there who have an opinion, please do leave a comment. Also, if there's a question you'd like to offer, please do.