This guy-- not crazy about poetry, carried Eavan Boland's poem in his wallet. St. Patrick's Day, 2000, a Favorite Poem Project video shown on The NewsHourhttps://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/the-emigrant-irish/?fbclid=IwAR3r-a0-9qi6O04G4UUGdHD6XL6MCne0SOMvy5c6CFvFHcIRI_ypbfbMvjg
Russell Banks and Charlie Simic: too demonstrations that sometimes being a generous, decent person can go with great accomplishment in, and devotion to, art. Or more than just go with-- elements in a single human goodness, maybe? (Plenty of the opposite, of course, Pound, etc.)
"Caminante, no hay camino / Traveler, There Is No Road" by Antonio Macha... https://t.co/0zS0j9PJYa via @YouTube
One of my favorites among the recent Favorite Poem Project videos.