Poetry is multifaceted and timeless. Resultantly, its subject and its crafting provide a rich array of possibilities for engagement and use. Within this edition, poetry is presented as powerful, with the kinetic energy to teach, transform, and heal, even while revealing, subverting, and problematizing. These seven narratives from across the Caribbean region and beyond share the writers’ personal and professional encounters with poetry, and, as such, are strategically situated within this edition to chronicle the multiple perspectives of composition, pedagogy, culture, recitation, performance, gender, and therapy.