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Blog City – Day 478

Ted Kooser commented in his book The Poetry Home Repair Book " Readers of contemporary poems are attracted because the personal pronoun I is preeminent. The reason for this is people are really attracted to confessional poetry with the poet baring his soul then they are about poems that do not discuss hardships/life situations of some kind. Do you agree or disagree with Kooser? Do you know a contemporary poem that is not confessional? Please share it with us.

I don't think I have really thought of poems being 'confessional', but perhaps. With my own poems I write from the heart. I pour myself out onto the page... I guess that can be seen as confessional, but the thing is, poetry reaches out for the common thread. It is the thing that links us together as humanity. Writing poems that come from that place, is to write about universal experience in a personal way. Call it confessional if you want, but I call it sharing of the heart. Connection.