My interview with Elizabeth Alexander encourages slowing down and peering inside, as well as seriousness and playfulness with words, and a different kind of reflection than all the popular "end of year" analyses and lists. I've become more and more aware, in my years of doing this program, of poetry as a conveyer of truths that cannot be captured in mere fact.

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