Do poems contain truths? I entertain the possibility that they do in a short piece I wrote for the Institute of Art and Ideas about how poetry can help us think. I maintain that poetry offers us so much more than images, fictions, and representations and, in fact, contains some of our sharpest and most persuasive ideas. Titled “Poetry is Philosophy,” the piece tries to show how poetry can be a powerful way of actually doing philosophy--or wondering aloud about who we are.
https://iai.tv/articles/poetry-is-philosophy-auid-2899?_auid=2020
