As Always, A Poem: A Getting Smart Town Hall

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We recently recorded a Getting Smart Town Hall that is all about poetry. Over the course of the conversation we discuss why we use poetry to kick-off events, what poetry means to the Getting Smart Team, what poetry means to our audience, what are new methods of teaching poetry and much more. </span></p> <p><strong>In this event, we used the following poems: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/neruda.html"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Poetry by Pablo Neruda</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://gratefulness.org/resource/the-way-it-is-william-stafford/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Way it Is by William Stafford</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://intowind.substack.com/p/20-hikes-to-turn-bird-into-a-verb?s=r"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">20 lines to turn ‘bird’ into a verb by Mason Pashia</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://gratefulness.org/resource/see-more/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">See More by Jean E Taddonio</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This is just to say by William Carlos Williams</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can sign up for Mason’s weekly newsletter featuring an original poem at</span> <a href= "https://intowind.substack.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">his website</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check out the next</span> <a href="https://gettingsmart.com/townhalls/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Getting Smart Town Hall her