What is place?

AHHHHH this question is so simple yet challenging to define!!! It hits like a brick to the face. It's a word you've been using since you can remember and it's a word you thought you knew, but when faced with the question you fumble for a clear cut definition.  I feel like I can ramble for days about what place actually is, to me at least.

So first step of whenever I'm stuck with trying define lofty concepts or notions or words especially coherently I always start by making lists as a meditation and ultimately to organize my thoughts.

A Place is:

where people fall in love
a concept
home
where people fall out of love
your childhood home
where you keep your secrets
your favorite restaurant
where you find secret
where you bury things
magical
a safe spot
a space
an installation
memory bank
an imaginary space
an island
part of your identity

Have you ever accessed and evaluated how much a region or a place affects an artist and their work. I felt a connection with Khanna's imagery of India and her being a foreigner there as much as her partner(?) she's traveling with in Spell for Lori

"We traveled the city like we didn't belong, a place I should call home but as foreign to me as to you."

I liked how we got to visualize specific place and regions in different regards with all the authors from Winds and AAP.

Comparing what place evokes for different poets is just an example of how broad the definition of "place" is... For example compare Khanna's poems of India with Eduardo C. Corral's words that paint a desert and mountainous Tuscon, Arizona... Tuscon and Agra are geographically distanced and distanced even further with how they're defined by the respective poets.