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Nov 29, 2016
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." --Robert Frost
How Poetry Captivates Us
Robert Hass is one of contemporary American poetry's most celebrated and widely-read voices. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995-1997 and has won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the mid-1990s, Cofounder of the River of Words organization, which provides tools for teaching ecoliteracy to young students through multidisciplinary, interactive curricula, Hass is Distinguished Professor of Poetry & Poetics at UC Berkeley. In this video he speaks about the amazing history of our feelings which poetry provides.
BE THE CHANGE
Notice your feelings today, and try to put them into words, rather than judging them as bad or good. That's the beginning of a poem. You just became a poet!
