Tracy K. Smith, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2012, and Richard Blanco, Presidential Inaugural Poet 2009, will engage with the audience in a discussion of how poets use language to help us see our world more clearly. We live in anxious times. Our public discourse is full of worried talk about immigration, economics, education, climate change - all while a presidential campaign blusters around us. Can poetry help illuminate our understanding of the social environment we inhabit?