Poem Of The Week: The Committee Weighs In By Andrea Cohen

Poem Of The Week: The Committee Weighs In By Andrea Cohen

We are no doubt guilty, in this weekly feature, of erring on the side of earnestness, as if poetry might best be defined by its capacity to educate, redress, move, depress or just plain baffle. Today we take a step back from the studied and the serious and open the floor to American poet Andrea Cohen, whose ‘dialogue’ with her mother needs little commentary. Operating succinctly on the border between comedy and mourning, Cohen’s poem is a small …