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>> Narrator: From the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. >> Roberta I. Shaffer: Good evening, my name is Roberta Shaffer, and I have the absolute pleasure of serving as the 24th Law Librarian of Congress. Tonight is a particularly exciting evening for me, because it represents the really bringing to fruition a discussion and a dream that Rob Casper and I had about five years ago, about somehow marrying law and poetry; law and literature. And my dream at the time -- although I never shared this with Rob or my cartoon balloon at the time -- was to totally redefine the concept of poetic justice [background laughter]. And so I hope that we will be able to do that tonight. Because there is something very, very important about the sibling relationship between law and poetry. And in fact, Attica Locke, the 2016 recipient of the Harper Lee prize for fiction, has said that "Law and literature are really fraternal twins." And surely we can see that they share the womb of words in both an oral and a written tradition. But law and poetry, and law and literature find common ground in their reliance upon storytelling. In their heavy use of analogy and metaphor. In their conviction for form and format, which they then love to take great liberties with. The reliance upon history and precedent. And let's not forget the heavy use of fiction in both disciplines [background laughter]. The immortal Shelly provides some conformation in what I call an "Early amicus brief to civilization". His 1821 defense of poetry -- a legal term -- calls poets the "unacknowledged legislatures of the world". And in a more contemporary setting, the poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen, who is now ultimately legitimated by the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan, calls poetry "the evidence of life". So before I turn the podium over to the true stars of the evening, I just want to make some acknowledgements. And the first is to my wonderful, extraordinary colleague Rob Casper. The head of the Poetry and Literature Center. He wears, in my mind, the triple crown. He is a colleague extraordinaire. He is an incredibly cool guy [background laughter]. And he is so, so creative. Let me also do a callout to our new head of the center for the book, Pam Jackson, who is sitting in the audience. The center for the book -- the Poetry and Literature Center is nested within the center for the book. A perfectly wonderful pairing again. But let me just conclude by saying that our goal for this evening is to provide clear and convincing evidence [background laughter], beyond a reasonable thought that law and poetry share so much in their DNA. And together they enrich the world. Indeed, they are wonderful conspirators in helping us to better understand our current times. And then help us to transfer the enormous knowledge assets that we will leave as a legacy to the future. So with that, I welcome Rob to the podium....
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