“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.”

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0:00.0	Ours Poetica 100, I Believe, students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves, though Sterling Brown said,
0:24.1	every eye is a dramatic eye, digging in the clam flats
0:28.8	for the shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt, in the corner,
0:37.3	over here on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get from here to there. Poetry and now my voice is rising is not all
0:48.4	love love love and I'm sorry the dog died.
0:53.0	Poetry, here I hear myself loudest, is the human voice.
1:00.0	And are we not of interest to each other? you're

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