Professor talks poetry
“I wrote this poem in response to opening my door this morning and finding that a man had come to turn off the power,” James Pollack ’09 said, introducing his poem tentatively titled “Off.”
Pollack’s remark was in the spirit of National Poetry Month, which celebrates engaging with poetry in everyday life.
In connection with the month-long celebration, Yale is hosting dozens of poetry-related events, such as an annual poetry reading held in Beinecke Library on Thursday and a musical adaptation of the poem “Resignation” by J.D. McClatchy, professor of English, which was...
