Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Wisława Szymborska) | Ep 1

<p>Host Pádraig Ó Tuama gives an overview of this <i>Poetry Unbound</i> mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. He also brings us Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics,” translated by Joanna Trzeciak, which covers statistics of the most human kind — like the number of people in a group of 100 who think they know better, who can admire without envy, or who could do terrible things. Listen, and ask yourself: Which categories do I belong to? Which do I believe?</p><p>Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, and she lived from 1923 to 2012. Her poetry is collected in numerous volumes including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/introducing-poems-as-teachers-ft-wislawa-szymborska-episode-1#media" target="_blank"><i>View with a Grain of Sand</i></a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/introducing-poems-as-teachers-ft-wislawa-szymborska-episode-1#media" target="_blank"><i>Poems New and Co...