Making Meaning

Carol Ann Carl, a storyteller from Pohnpei Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, talks about how she uses poetry to advocate for historically marginalized communities, and two-term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey describes how poetry can articulate acts of civic engagement.

Explore Carol Ann Carl’s work and learn about the Why it Matters Poetry Workshop she led through the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities. Learn more about Natasha Tretheway on her website.

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Poet, writer, and physician Dr. Rafael Campo reads his poem “The Doctor's Song” and talks about the healing power of the humanities. Dr. Gioia Woods, a professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, shares The Pandemic Stories Project, a reading, discussion, and oral history program she created to document the impact of COVID-19 in her rural community.

Learn more about Dr. Campo’s work and poetry on his website, watch his TEDx talk, and read the Poetry Section he edits at the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Explore the Pandemic Stories Project and Plague Virtual Book Club, and read more about Dr. Woods’ work and recent book, Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West.

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Desde que estalló la pandemia en 2020, tanto ha cambiado. Pero hemos encontrado formas de avanzar con fuerza y ​​juntos, de conectarnos y compartir historias; este es el trabajo de las humanidades. Making Meaning es un podcast de la Federación de Consejos Estatales de Humanidades. En esta serie, la anfitriona Sydney Boyd comparte historias de los consejos y líderes de humanidades sobre el papel que las humanidades han jugado durante la pandemia y en la recuperación.

Para más información, visita http://statehumanities.org

Since the pandemic struck in 2020, we’ve all been through a lot, but we’ve found ways to move forward in strength and community, to connect and tell stories—this is the work of the humanities. Making Meaning is a podcast from the Federation of State Humanities Councils that shares that work. In this series, host Sydney Boyd hears stories from our nation’s humanities councils and leaders across the greater United States about the role the humanities have played during the pandemic and are playing in our recovery.

For more information, visit us at  https://www.statehumanities.org.