SAT, FEB 18, 2023
7:15 PM ET
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The Word in a Broken World: The Poet’s Response

Through their own work and those of classic and contemporary figures, poets Ned Balbo, Ewa Chrusciel, James Davis May, and Rita A. Simmonds will offer their reflections on the NYE theme Who Am I That You Care for Me? with special attention to the desire to live in communion with others amid the challenges of separation and disconnection that mark our modern world

But when you said: you,
to me, yes, to me singled out,
I was higher than stars,
deeper than coral. …
You gave me possession of myself
when you gave your self to me.

—Pedro Salinas, “When you chose me”

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