{"product_id":"an-anthology-of-poems-by-usnh-students-volume-3-paperback","title":"An Anthology of Poems by USNH Students: Volume 3 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanielle Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor in Chief)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCongratulations to all of the New Hampshire undergraduate and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egraduate-level poets whose work is included in this year's anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt UNH, we often have students in introductory poetry classes read\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis anthology along with other classic and contemporary poets, so in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaddition to congratulations, let me say something even more important: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethank you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you for knowing that the world needs poetry today. It needs new\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways of looking at old problems when the old rehearsed and received\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estances and assumptions no longer seem to work. It needs your feeling, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour humor, your wit, and your sense of adventure. It needs the synthesis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof metaphor and simile. It needs the compressed meaning that images\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econvey, but only when they are run through the unique miracle of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindividual who lives and feels and remembers things in jumbled ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Wolf says that the world never asks for poems, but this anthology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshows that the world needs your poetry, just as the world needs more free\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople of consciousness and compassion and its unlikely twin, humor, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eneeds their fresh eyes, needs their open ears, their impulse to build, to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emake from a spirit of play, alertness, and discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe also need poetry because poetry helps us remember. The techniques\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand arcana of poetry, rhythm, rhyme, even the pauses, the caesuras, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epunctuation, and the withheld punctuation are all in the service of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eentertainment of memory. When we remember a poem, we remember to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeel, to live with our senses. We remember the rawness of feeling and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelief and pleasure of play. And the voices of poets, being companionable, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing good company, remind us we are not alone. These are all reasons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor gratitude. Once again, thank you, poets and readers. And all readers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof poems become poets when they read. Thank you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Blair, M.F.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLecturer of Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepartment of English, MFA Writing Program\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe University of New Hampshire\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 154\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53909966586163,"sku":"9798990056992","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8BEUvcU2Dd9798990056992.webp?v=1787834316","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/an-anthology-of-poems-by-usnh-students-volume-3-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}