
Poetry connects, educates people, says Fil-Am poet
ASPIRING POETS must use poetry as an instrument to link people with one another and expand the connection of the “inseparable” concepts of politics and history, an award-winning Filipino-American poet told Thomasians in a lecture held April 27.
“Poetry can, at the very least, be an essential thing that tries to mend a broken core which connects us all,” Eugene Gloria said during Isang Bala(k) Ka Lang: Some Notes on the Anecdotal Writing Workshop.
“I believe poetry can function as a tool to help examine who we are in relation to our violent nature as well as our human failings, although art and poetry cannot be that bold work against our difficult and dangerous world,” he added.
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