Asheville poetry

A poet in residence through the Asheville Center for Arts in Medicine visited a former Marine who shared his experience of war horrors and how he found peace from his PTSD through words and water.

What do poetry and computer programming have in common? No, this isn't the start to a schoolyard punchline.

"Art is the place where we give importance to our imagination and acknowledge it as a viable and underestimated source of governance."

And isn’t this, after all, the function of the best art—not to give us answers, but to provoke contemplation, to spur us to ask complex and important questions, and to help us learn to listen to one another?