Name: Lily Smith
Hometown: Indianapolis
Current City: Indianapolis
Occupation: Commercial Real Estate Broker
Age: 30
What does poetry mean to you?
It means an economy of words, piecing together the ordinary in an extraordinary way, and saying/expressing what has been said/expressed forever over the course of humanity in a new and shattering way.
Favorite Poets:
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Louise Glück, Anne Marie Rooney, Wallace Stevens, Sarah Galvin, W. S. Merwin
Favorite Poem:
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”
Why do you like this poem?
The mundane, brutal, familiarity of love expressed in a brilliant and subtly, yet overwhelmingly, powerful poem.