HER KIND: In Eleanor Lerman’s poem “Starfish“, the speaker ponders over an encounter with a fisherman, which leads to her to examine her past. What has challenged your perceptions or beliefs— perhaps a chance encounter?     SIOLO THOMPSON: One poem that has affected the course of my life is Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo”. That poem seeded me with the notion that an object, a single, freestanding work of visual art, could be imbued with the power to make viewers examine their lives. I found that idea very seductive, so much so that I eventually gave up writing in [Read more]