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Which Poets Inform Your Work? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which poets inform your work? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jorie Graham: Jorie Graham is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won The Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: Which poets inform your work? Jorie Graham: I would have to say that when I came to study poetry, I was also learning the English language for the first time, really, as a fluent language. So I learned English by sitting in a class taught by M.L. Rosenthal, at NYU, where what he loved to do in class was read poems out loud, talk about running out the clock. One of the easiest ways to teach a class is decide you are going to

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