What is a good poem?

Too many writers? Feeling overwhelmed and small?


Tim Green, editor of Rattle, offers encouragement for those dark days of despair:

"The definition of a great poem is really simple: Poems that have the power to effect the lives of some of the people who read them. Every poem we publish doesn’t have to be memorable and moving for everyone — but it has to be memorable or moving for someone, some kind of person who represents a subset of our readership . . . "

Read more here.