Robert Hass on the Gift Economy

Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets.

Video: The Gift Economy of Poetry
by Robert Hass
From the inaugural Poets Forum, presented by the Academy of American Poets on October 20, 2007, at Marymount College in New York City. On the second panel of the day, Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ellen Bryant Voigt answered questions about “Aesthetic Lineage and Originality” from critic and founding editor of Parnassus, Herbert Leibowitz.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbUbEA-nWRM]

Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Culture, NaBloPoMo 2007, Poetry

2 Comments to Robert Hass on the Gift Economy

Dave Bonta
November 11, 2007

Exactly right. Good find!

Mark
November 11, 2007

For somebody like me who is just starting with poetry and beginning to wonder, “why am I spending my time doing this,” this video was intriguing. Thanks for posting it!

- Mark

You might also want to look at this. -tom

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