This week, the Collisters consider an unlikely connection between 2 unique poems: "Los Periquitos" by A.M. Juster and "Book I, Ode IX of Horace," translated by John Dryden.

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For centuries, poetry was a unifying force in society: farmers and aristocrats alike shared a common knowledge and participated, to a large extent, in a common poetic story. Nowadays, things have changed. Poetry has been pigeon-holed to the classroom or the academy, and therefore become less approachable. Our project is to reclaim poetry one poem at a time, placing it back in the rightful hands of the people!

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