Buy Poetry Junkies - Lucien Zell a coffee

Poetry Junkies began with a joke. It also began with a sensational online class by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass which took a deep dive into the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz. During one of the breakout rooms, several avid students and I stayed up late into the night (or in my case, based in Prague, the wee hours of the morning) wrangling and wrestling over the myriad insights in the work we'd covered. Much as we said, there was more to say. At one point, dawn-light glinting my face, I said "Damn, we're poetry junkies!" We agreed to keep meeting, and Poetry Junkies was born.