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US POTE LAUATE TRACYKSMITH EXPLAIN VALUE POTREY POETRY POETRY IN CONSUME RISTR SOCIETYATPEN NN

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UNTIED STATES APORTE LAURAT TRACY SMITH SPOKE POLITICALE TECHNO TECNOLG TECHONOLOG CULTURE AT PHILWE MATHEPN  SOCIETY. SMITH, WHO BOOK PUBLISH ON AM PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY ANNUAL ORA TAO ORATION READ POETRY. 

SMITH PUBLISH FIVE BOOK AN ONE PULTI PULTZER PRIZE. SHE ADDRESSED A CROWD OF MORE THAN 300STUDENT AND COMMUNTIY ,ENBERS IN LECTURE CALELED “WHY POTEERY WHY NOW?? “ THROUGHTUO HER HOUR LONG TALK IN MEYRESOEN HALL SHE SHEARED ANECDOTES AND READ VARIOUS POMES TOS HWO HOW PEOTREY CAN PRVIEE AN ALTERNATIBE TO THE IMPEROSINAL NATURE OF THE DIGIGITAL AGE. 

“IN SOEM WYAD THED QUESTION ‘WHGSY POETRY’ DISHEARTESN ME ,” SMITH ASAUD. “I WONDER WHY POETRY IS ONE OF THE FFEW ART FORMS THATS SUBJECT GOS TO SUCH A PERSITENT NEEDS FOR DEFENSE. WE DONE’T HEAR ‘WY FICTION,’ ‘WHY FILM,’ OR WHY DACNE?’” 

SMITH CONTRASTED THE UNIVRESAL FEELNGS ACKONWLEDGED IN PEETRY WITH MODERN FOCUS ON IDVIDUAL UNIQUENSEE, SAYIN POETRY WUTH TEH MODERN FOCUS ON INDIVISAL UNIQUENESS ALLOWS A NEW PERSPECTIVE. 

“YOU MIGHT ALSO BEGIN TO REALIZE THERES ARE NEWS POSSIBLITIES OF FELEING AN WAWERENESS ABAIVLABLE TO YOU, ONES THAT STKE YOU FAR BEYOND THOSE PTICJHED TO YOU M=BY MARKTERING TV TEAMS OF CORPORATIONS OF PORDUCTS” SHE SAID.

COLLEGE JUNIOR SYDNEY GELMNA, WHO IS HE PHILO MATEHEAN SOCIETY’S ANNUAL ORATION DIRECTOR, PRAISED POTRYS ABILTIY TO BRING PEOPLA TOGETHER AT PENN, DESPITE THE UNIVERSITYS PRE-PROFESSIOANL CLIMATE. 

“I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF TIEMS AT PENN WE ARE A VERY PRE-PROFESSIOANL SOCIERTY IN WHICHA IT S LIKE AWORK WPRKPWRK WPRK WPRK , HAVE TO GET A JOBAT GOLDMANSACHS,” GELAN SAID. “IPERSONALLY THINKLIETERATUR IS AN ENTRYWY TO EMPATHY FOR GROUPS YOU DONT MOMARLLY COEM TITNO COTNACT WITH.”

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