National Poetry Month — Roger Kalia

18 Jun National Poetry Month — Roger Kalia

Last year, in honor of National Poetry Month, I asked several past Indiana Poets Laureate their thoughts about the importance of Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem to the revitalization of American poetry and to the health of the nation. This year I decided to pose a larger question to four Hoosiers working outside the discipline of poetry:

How do the Humanities help us all cultivate hope and community in times of crisis?

Here’s the fourth and final post I received, from Roger Kalia, music director of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, who approached it from an artistic perspective. 
Matthew Graham
Indiana Poet Laureate

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