Bookish Diversions: The Point of Poetry? Slow Down

Out of Fashion, Lyrical Labor, Phillis Wheatley, Poetry’s Psychology, Smoking Dante, More

Out of fashion. A while back, EconTalk host Russ Roberts talked with poet and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith about his book, Bea Wolf, an amusing adaptation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf. The conversation covers a lot of ground, but one subject that gets a fair amount of attention concerns why people seem to undervalue poetry these days.

Since this April marks …