Baltimore poet Justin Sirois has no interest in being Maryland's poet laureate. Absolutely none. But if by some strange fate twist he ended up in that seat, he knows exactly what he'd do. "I'd go to as many local readings as possible--in the city, because that's where the stuff is happening," he says, sitting at a small table in the murky back-room bar of a Hampden café. He pauses and takes a sip from a dark draught. "I would promote experimentation and failure. A lot of poetry doesn't want to fail--it has a very strict thing that it wants to be, and that's not a poem. It might look like a poem, but it's not going to be a poem. You can't go into it with a specific agenda, saying, This is going to change the reader. Communication doesn't work like that."
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