Documentary Studies

I listened to a talk under Dukes Documentary Studies titled "Poetry and Documentary Expression". This was introduction by Tom Rankin for Robert Pinsky's talk about "poetry and documentation", Pinsky is a poet and teacher of workshops at Boston College as well as the author of "Democracy, Culture, and the voice of poetry". Rankin mentioned that poetry and documentaries are similar in that they both include everything, connection to everyday life and they both try to fix the here and now. He really wanted the talk to be a conversation, so that people could give and take.

Just from hearing the introduction i can tell how great of a writer Robert Pinsky really is, by his accomplishments, and the quotes Tom Rankin talked about. It's great that you are able to go onto i tunes and listen to these talks because it gives you a chance to listen to talks that you might have never had the chance to listen to, because its at another collage or that you had a conflict and couldn't attend.