[The poet, Roger White, has suffered a heart attack. His paper “Poetry and Self-Transformation” is read by Jan Tye-Chew.] Art not only transforms its creator but also its audience. Reading from his paper: “My non-Bahá’í friends who are poets frequently complain that among friends and members of their families to whom they show their work they encounter indifference, contempt, embarrassment, or sometimes hostility, which heightens their sense of alienation and uselessness. They are made to feel frivolous and somewhat less than respectable. They have no experience of audience and feel that they are writing in a void, speaking to themselves in a vacuum; presenting their private view of the world with no confidence that anyone else might see the world as they do. Poetry is no longer very accessible to the average reader; it is rare to find families and groups of friends gathering together to read poetry: it is increasingly seen as a specialized and elitist interest divorced from real life, and few consider it a source of pleasure and insight. Poetry is still written and read, of course, but it has taken refuge in universities.” He expresses the view that a study of the Master's talks and writings will yeild a new system of aesthetics. She closes by reading one of Mr. White's poems.