Paired with Poetry
Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The New York Times’ Learning Network began an artful series called “Poetry Pairings” in which they pair a poem from the Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry project with an article from the paper that “somehow echoes, extends or challenges the poem’s themes.”
Well, wouldn’t you know it? Sam Freedman’s profile piece on Krista, “Radio Program About Faith Defies the Skeptics,” is coupled with Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.”
What do you think of this selection? What you draw from the two selections that adds depth to the poem or the article? Leave a comment here. I’m not quite sure what my read is yet.
