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Aspen Ideas Festival
Poetry, Justice, and Alienation
Season 1
Episode 55
Two of America’s most powerful poetic voices explore how their art can tackle some of the most difficult social-justice questions we face today. Walt Whitman wrote, “Of all races and eras, These States, with veins full of poetical stuff, most need poets.” In the past year we've witnessed images of a country at war with itself; Can poetry dispel alienation and give rise to a new citizenship?
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