<p>In this episode, Craig Eley talks with Jean Allman, director of the <a href="https://chcinetwork.org/members/center-for-the-humanities-9">Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis</a>, about the "<a href="https://humanities.wustl.edu/life-lines">Life/Lines</a>" project.</p> <p>Back in April, Jean wanted to add to the humanities conversations she was seeing in her feeds. So she launched “Life/Lines,” a project that gave participants a daily poetry prompt: 5 keywords that must be used, and 7 or 8 lines to use them. The response was remarkable—undergrads to professors emeritus, lifelong poets and those just starting out, people inside the university and well beyond it.</p> <p>Special thanks to Jean Allman, the J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and director of the Humanities Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Thanks also to this episode’s poets: Mark Alford, Jeannette Cooperman, Gwyneth Henke, Robert Henke, and Jey Sushil. The show was produced by Craig Eley with help from Jade Isiri-Ramos.<br> <br> Music in this episode comes from <a href="https://sessions.blue/">Blue Dot Sessions</a>.</p>