Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, believes that poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem, according to Pinsky, is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. His web site, the Favorite Poem Project, allows students to see and hear the poets and their poems.
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