Will Poetry Save the World?
A conversation with Joyce Beckett
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A while ago, I spoke with Joyce Beckett, who will be teaching online classes in literature for Freogan Fellowship Learing - the education arm of the private membership association that I recently started. You can listen to the interview here.
Joyce Beckett is an Oxford-educated professor of literature, theatre, and art and architectural history. In our interview,, Joyce speaks about the experience of poetry as a bulwark against the cultural and spiritual "colonization" that is the effect of mass media and culture.
Most of Freogan Fellowship Learning's classes are designed for teens - however this one is also open to adults. As Joyce says:
"Anyone, at any stage of their lives, with an interest in the profound effect
of words on the senses will be most welcome."
For more information about Joyce’s classes, please visit Freogan Fellowship Learning.
Poetry has saved my life innumerable times. Since lives are the world, of course, the answer is yes.