Ted Kooser Writes about Magic and Anecdotes

I blogged recently about Ted Kooser and his criticism about poetry that is anecdotal without further layering of intensities. http://deniselow.blogspot.com/2012/05/ted-koose-admonishes-against-anecdotes.html

Here is a bit more from Kooser about this issue in his American Life in Poetry selection this week. http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/current.html

So here is the crux: Do you believe in magic? This poem about a fish, literally yes but also something intagibly more.