The Best Poetry Critic in America
Colloquy
English - April 21, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingScience Education arts research college conversation curiosity current events discovery economics gsas harvard Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For this special Poetry Month bonus episode of Colloquy, a conversation with Harvard Professor Helen Vendler, PhD ’60—once called “the best poetry critic in America” by The New Republic’s Alfred Kazin—about the art of verse and why both the poetic form and its great works have enduring value in the era of the social media-induced seven-second attention span.