The speaker shares their journey of pursuing a non-creative career while maintaining their passion for poetry, highlighting the importance of making artistic choices in a marketplace that often pushes for compromise.
Poet and author Dana Gioia talks about his book Studying with Miss Bishop with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They talk about the craft of being a poet, the business world, mentorship, loss, why poetry no longer seems to matter, and how it might begin to matter again.