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It is the medium on a human scale, Pinsky says.

The distinction between poetry and rap lyrics lies in the performance.

Text is all around us, Pinsky says.

The closer you get to beauty, the harder it is to describe.

Any moment any person’s idea at any one moment, any artifact, if you could understand it well enough would be a portal into the whole rest of the universe.

Who’s more famous, Elizabeth Bishop or Vaughn Monroe?

“Nobody ever wrote sweeter poetry with a human voice” than the 16th and 17th-century poets.

Not ever word has a direct translation.

The former Poet Laureate describes how he knows a poem is finished.

Mixing Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words is a delightful sensation, like mixing smooth and crunchy.

Words have always fascinated Pinsky, though it was his failure as a saxophone player that finally pushed him into poetry.

It would take four Russian novels to explain why Pinsky’s mother missed his bar mitzvah.

Robert Pinsky is deeply from Long Branch, New Jersey.

Love, death, hunger..are there any others?

Yes, it’s possible, Gugolev says, but impossible to translate everything.

Russian literature and poetry influenced Gugolev’s work.

Gugolev initially disliked Live Journal, but later realized it gives people the opportunity to not feel alone.

In Russia is a poet more than a poet?

Gugolev’s first poem was at age 3.

Were Rev. Wright’s remarks racist?

It’s a lot of pressure, Wyclef says.

The people with the real money aren’t doing any of that stuff, Wyclef says.

Celebrities don’t have to do charity work.

Restoring Haiti’s self-esteem.

Wyclef Jean talks on the power of Will.i.am.

Get off your high horse, Wyclef says.

A generation of Joshuas.

Beyond an endorsement.

Wyclef believes that the new generation has moved beyond racial prejudice.

Hip-hop is going global.