In this second episode of "You Could Make This Beautiful," hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie talk to Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" about a poem that's haunted him for decades. They also talk to poet and Harvard professor Stephanie Burt about finding poetry in science fiction, Taylor Swift, and politics.
In this second episode of You Could Make This Beautiful, hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie talk to Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! about a prophetic reading at his first wedding, the poem that has haunted him throughout his life, and about the poetry he's found in the kindness and grace of his children.
They also hear from poet and Harvard professor Stephanie Burt about how she found her way to poetry by way of science fiction, and how she's used the work of Taylor Swift to introduce her students to poets of centuries past like Alexander Pope.
