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Poets see the world with “new eyes”. They make the ordinary extraordinary by paying attention to the particulars, noting the specifics of a feeling or experience and building images that connect and communicate by expressing our common humanity. Jade Carter and Adrianna Garner are poets, and students, at Anacortes High School. They interviewed one another, reflecting on poetry in their lives.

What does poetry mean to you?

Addi: Poetry is a way to express what the world is to you right now. It’s a way of distilling all this input that you come across in your daily life and condensing it into it...