If one of poetry's objectives is to take root in the commonplace, then transcend it, then poetry will search for its roots, which is to return home again. Social media is that commonplace, a destiny best described by Wallace Stevens, when he wrote, "The entire race is a poet that writes down the eccentric propositions of its fate." If Stevens were alive today, he no doubt would see that eccentricity as social media itself, where a thriving poetry unites us in our commonality.
-- David Thane Cornell
2 April 2019