When asked what poetry has meant to him, Winans responds, “To be honest, poetry is my life. I’ve said many times, and I’ll say it again, that there’s no distinguishing a difference between poetry and ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion.