How to reach people with poetry? 'Fault in Our Stars' author John Green, nonprofit are trying YouTube
CHICAGO - The words on the page reveal themselves first with a title and then a phrase at a time.
"Poetry
"I, too, dislike it:
"There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle."
That's how "Poetry," Marianne Moore's early 20th century poem about the venerable art form, is presented via a wholly new art form, the YouTube video.
The voice reading those words, the hands holding the battered copy of the "Norton Anthology of Poetry" containing them, belong to John Green, the best-selling author of "The Fault in Our Stars" and other works in the young-adult canon.
In another video from the same, new series, you can see - but mostly hear - actor Shailene Woodley read Kahlil Gibran's "On Love," a poem
