Poetry does not exhibit itself in the lines you see. It is visible in the vacuum between lines, audible in the calm between stanzas.
Poetry is not confined to the lines you see or hear. It breathes most in silence, it lingers long in gaps, it reveals itself in the spaces where words dare not tread. Poetry is most powerful in not what it includes, but in what it excludes. Each stanza is not only what is written, but also what is withheld — the hush that carries meaning beyond language. To listen to poetry is to hear not only the words, but the silence that frames them. To read poetry is to see not only the ink, but the white expanse that gives it shape.
This site begins with the belief that literature is more than text. It is a romance of whispers, a symphony of silence.