What Happens When You Put Two National Poet Laureates In The Same Room

When the poet laureate of Scotland meets the poet laureate of the United States … no, not the start of a joke. “Both strongly believe in poetry as a means of fostering empathy by inhabiting different characters and different selves. ‘In a way I think of your work as a great opera of voices,’ [Jackie] Kay tells [Tracy K.] Smith. ‘It’s almost like you’re saying that all of these human beings come through us, that we’re not one person, we’re many.'” – The Observer (UK)