What do we gain reading together in the classroom? Poet and master teacher Christine Perrin joins us to reflect on poetry as a shared encounter. Drawing from decades of experience, she offers a powerful vision for how poetry can shape souls. In this episode, we discuss:
📖 The "choral" dimension of reading together
📖 Why Gen Z students fear taking interpretive risks—and how to invite them in
📖 How to delay analysis in favor of immersive, formative reading
📖 Encountering poetry not as a puzzle to solve, but as a relationship to enter

LINKS:
➡️ The Honors College at Messiah University: https://www.messiah.edu/ug-commencement/graduate-resources/honors
➡️ Gordon in Orvieto semester program: https://www.gordon.edu/academics/undergraduate/global-education/programs/gordon-in-orvieto
➡️ "Blue Swallows" by Howard Nemerov: https://allpoetry.com/The-Blue-Swallows
➡️ "Truth and Method" by Hans-Georg Gadamer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Method
➡️ Transcript for this episode: coming soon

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