"So much of what I'm trying to teach is really for us to just use the literary arts as an excuse to come together and celebrate being alive," says Joshua Bennett, professor of literature and distinguished chair of the humanities at MIT. His new course, Writing and Reading Poems: Nature Poetry, is a workshop where students get to create various forms of expression and share them with their peers.

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