For Hirsch, Reading Poetry Is Fundamental from NPR.org

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For Hirsch, Reading Poetry Is Fundamental In Poet's Choice, author Edward Hirsch makes a case that poetry is "a human fundamental, like music." Hirsch talks poetry with Scott Simon and reads poems by Kathy Fagan and William Matthews. Link