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Although I’ve recently moved from New York to Providence, Rhode Island, many of my poems are about walking around in New York and a few other places. No matter where they’re set, they are almost all about walking around in my own mind and paying attention to what I find there. Poetry is a way of taking notes — of noticing. And then of choosing your words as carefully as you can to describe what you’ve seen. In the newer poems there is more exploration of places I’ve only visited in my imagination (Estonia, for instance) but all of them are essentially transcriptions of these mental notes. We take them all the time — when we see the skyline from the Great Lawn or remember a difficult or tender childhood moment or find that a painting is speaking to us from a gallery wall– but then we forget them. If we all wrote down our dreams, we’d all be poets.
The Millennial Pedestrian is also about my passage from my fifties into my sixties. Poetry helped me through that passage by making me notice that my life kept getting more interesting, not less. We really do accumulate useful knowledge as we progress through life. We just need to realize that we have it — and then figure out how to use it. For me, poetry is one way.
John Schenck
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