U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine on Social Isolation and Democracy




Zócalo Public Square  (Audio) show

Summary: U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine joined Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Stuart Leavenworth in Fresno to discuss whether social isolation is a threat to democracy. In a wide-ranging conversation they discussed poetry, Levine's youth in Detroit, the community he came to love in Fresno, and the future of American democracy.