What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine

CHICAGO -- What is a poet?

This is a question that I have been asking most of my life, since encountering poetry as a child and later in classrooms; in various taverns large and small and at Chicago's Green Mill where Marc Smith joyfully oversaw and orchestrated his creation called the poetry slam; in arenas that played host to the youngsters expressing themselves in Louder Than a Bomb competitions; and often in quiet rooms on a couch or a chair, a small book spread before