Love Letters to Kenny G, Dave Chappelle, and RuPaul

Because poetry’s medium is a single human voice, it’s an ideal vehicle for human mastery, a source of awe at the almost athletic ingenuity of saying something rhythmically and well. Or: Because poetry’s medium is a single human voice, it’s an ideal image of our human frailty—its serrated right margin pointing out that the page is still mostly blank, that a larger silence surrounds our...