What Poetry Can Teach Us About Being Human

📖 What can poems teach us about living through wreckage and wonder?
We spend our lives shuttling between mundane duties and the biggest questions of existence: how to love, how to grieve, how to stay curious in a difficult world. For centuries, poets have turned to verse to sit with those questions rather than rush past them, and in this talk, poet and critic Dean Rader argues that poetry is not a luxury but a way of paying attention to what it means to be alive.
Dean Rader is a San Francisco based poet, essayist, and professor at the University of San Francisco, whose debut collection won…

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