 It's for the best of our knowledge. I'm Ann Strainchamps. Documentary poetry is a way of blending poetry with journalism to capture the truth about our present-day reality. And today, a new generation of docu-poets is using it to say the things that are hardest to express. What can a poem do, really, is to capture some kind of essence of a spirit in motion in the world and with all of its longing and all of its past and all of its hope. Rooted in reality, written with a keen observer's eye and shaped with a sense of song, documentary poetry is a way of telling the truth in an artist's voice. My whole life, the whole life, everything that is happening, all of it is material for the poem. This hour, docu-poetry.