16.11: What is Poetry?
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard
This is how we begin our master class
on poetry, with Amal El-Mohtar:
With not one question, but two.
- What is poetry?
- What is prose?
Yes, both questions are a trap.
Or maybe two traps.
But definitely a beginning.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework: Join a poem-a-day subscription service like poets.org/poem-a-day, or follow poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
Thing of the week A Map to the Sun, by Sloane Leong.
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