Ms. Jan Tye-Chew

[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.