Alisha Yi and David Xiang are on the podcast this week - the first DOUBLE GUEST episode in the podcast's short history. Alisha and David are the creators of the Hope Storytelling Project, a virtual series of poetry workshops designed to discuss themes of hope and vulnerability. Alisha M. Yi is a rising junior at Harvard University, studying History and Science and is a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts for Writing. David Xiang graduated this year magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in History and Science, and is an incoming medical student at Harvard Medical School. In 2015, he was selected as a National Student Poet, the nation’s highest honor for youth poets.
In this conversation, we discuss: How poetry helps make vulnerability accessible, how intergenerational spaces create more opportunities for connection and empathy, what we don’t know about others, how Alisha and David each got started writing poetry, loneliness, competition, and connection on college campuses, coming to terms with leaving college during the pandemic, AND POETRY SHARES!!!
Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-poetry-to-combat-loneliness-and-social-isolation/
Join their last session of the storytelling project here!: https://www.cambridgema.gov/en/cpl/calendarofevents/2020/05/27/thehopestorytellingprojectfindingcomfort https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/events/5ec41a3e171b7a24001534e1