In this overview to the podcast, I discuss how I use poetry to invite my students to consider the larger questions for which the intellectual language they’ve inherited is inadequate. The language we use in our teaching is often too small and too impoverished. It isn’t large enough for the territories we want to explore and inhabit.

Poetry offers us a language that is more expansive, more generous, deeper, and more worthy either of the identities we are on the hunt for or the ideas we are trying to make peace with.