It's a show about the gift of poetry in difficult times.
When Germany invaded Poland, igniting World War II, W.H. Auden wrote one of the great poems of the 20th century. To help him survive the war and its atrocities, Abraham Sutzkever wrote lovely and haunting poems about the Holocaust. And when terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, Galway Kinnell wrote a poem about the towers as they burned and fell. So as the world lives through a pandemic, what can poetry offer us now? We'll connect with three local poets to discuss poems of the past and how their current work is helping them make sense of this time.
GUESTS
- Katharine Coles, professor of English at the University of Utah
- Jacqueline Osherow, distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah
- Joel Long, English teacher at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's. He also runs the City Art Reading Series at the Downtown Public Library.
