Susan R Lin MW
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@SusanRLin
Wine and Performing Arts: Master of Wine and Master of Fine Arts - Program Management, Pianist, President & Co-Founder of Asian Wine Association of America
It is Opening Night ✨ Catch us at the David H. Koch Theater stage March 6–21! Get your seats at abt.org 📽️: Catherine Hurlin rehearsing FIREBIRD. #AmericanBalletTheatre
People stopped liking poetry because we got too good at teaching it. For thousands of years, poetry was central to education and people loved it because we were so bad at teaching it. Then came a group called the New Critics in the 1920s who figured out how to analyze poetry. For the first time in history, poetry was taught right, and it killed the audience. How was poetry taught before? You memorized it. You recited it. You sang it. And you didn't teach poetry as something that needed to be understood via analysis. The best way to teach poetry is like this: experience it, perform it, memorize it. Once you've done that, then you can do the analysis. But analysis is secondary to what poetry is. We don't make people analyze pop songs before they fall in love with them, so why do we do that for poetry? — @DanaGioiaPoet
Feeling grateful to have wonderful friends who generously share their cellar: 3 wines from the legendary 1961 vintage!
