Philip Levine and Kristen Dupard Discuss "What Work Is"
Philip Levine, the former Poet Laureate of the United States, is 84 years old. Kristen Dupard, the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion, just graduated high school. Though decades apart in age and miles apart in geography---she's from Ridgeland, Mississippi; he's from Detroit---they share something so rare that it defies classification. In this video, the two sat down to discuss his poem, "What Work Is."