and with their hands, people 
connect with food.

“Just think about what you 

have to know to grow a crop, the 
land, the weather, the markets,” 
he said. “A lot of that knowledge 
is not from food study or data it 
is from the very feel of the land. 
Maybe the increased interest in 
food that we feel more human 
when we engage with food.”

University Lecturer Margot 

Finn discussed the connection 
between fast food and social 
class. During the talk, she cited 
statistics to debunk the associa-
tion between poverty and fast 
food.

“The 2013 Gallup Poll that 

found that American house-
holds with annual income of 
over $50,000 a year were more 
likely to say they eat fast food 
on a weekly basis than lower-
income groups,” Finn said. “Fast 
food 
consumption 
increases 

along with income, peaking in 
the $60- to $70-thousand-dollar 
bracket.”

She went on to discuss how 

families with lower incomes are 
more likely to make meals from 
scratch, as prepared and restau-
rant meals are often out of their 
budgets.

“One reason for the associa-

tion between the poor and fast 
food is because people believe 
that eating fast food makes you 
fat, and poor people are strongly 
associated with fatness, and the 
other stigmatized character-
istics that go along with it like 
ignorance, laziness, apathy and 
lack of willpower,” Finn said.

After the event, LSA junior 

Lia Parks said she didn’t real-
ize how important food was in 
American culture. 

“I never realized how food 

and sustainability were so inter-
meshed in culture, and that we 
need to rethink the way we do 
and think about things,” Parks 
said.

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Louise Glück, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, reads her poetry at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on 
Tuesday. 

love.

“Read what you love,” she 

said. “You’re not going to be 
nourished by what you don’t 
love. Live the life that seems 
natural to you. That’s the 
hardest thing to learn.”

These words inspired strong 

emotion in LSA senior Maddy 
Rombes, who said she was 
nearly brought to tears by 
Glück’s words.

“She 
talked 
about 
doing 

what you love and not stressing 
too much about it,” Rombes 
said. “That’s been a recurring 
thought in my head, and that 
advice really resonated with 
me.”

Though the reading was 

open to the public, many of 
the 
attendees 
were 
faculty 

and 
students 
from 
the 

English Department and the 
Zell Program with previous 
exposure to her work.

LSA senior Marie Michels 

read 
a 
number 
of 
Glück’s 

pieces at the University’s New 
England Literature Program. 
Michels said she looked forward 
to hearing the poems in the 
author’s voice.

“I’m excited to see the person 

behind this work that I admire 
so much — to hear her voice and 
to be in the company of people 
who also really respect what 
she’s doing,” Michels said.

Hanna Poston, a Rackham 

student who is in her second 
year in the Zell Program and 
introduced Glück, talked about 
how Glück’s work inspires other 
writers.

“Fellow poets, through this 

work, I understand better what 
you are trying to do,” Poston 
said. “I understand better what 
I am trying to do.”

Poston added that Glück’s 

words bring hidden things to 
life.

“The brilliance of her vision 

and the brutal cadences of her 
lines are alive inside of us,” 
Poston said. “We’ve brought 
them into this room with us. 
Most of you know why you are 
here tonight.” 

David Ward, Zell Program 

graduate and a lecturer in the 
English Department, said he 
admires Glück for her honesty 
and realism.

“The way she structured the 

reading in terms of giving us the 
arc of her life as a writer stuck 
out,” Ward said. “The way she 
came back to the idea of having 

down times where you’re not 
writing or working at all was a 
refreshing take on the creative 
process.”

Before the event, Marlin 

Jenkins, a Rackham student in 
the Zell Program, said he was 
looking forward to hearing 
Glück speak freely, outside of 
reading her poetry.

“I hope that she does interject 

to talk about the poems and her 
process as well as reading her 
poetry,” Jenkins said. “I hope to 
hear a little bit about who she is 
as an artist in a way you can’t get 
from the page.”

Catering to fans like Jenkins, 

on Thursday, Glück and Linda 
Gregerson, director of the Zell 
Program, will hold an hour-
long conversation about poetry 
and contemporary literature 
in 
UMMA’s 
Helmut 
Stern 

Auditorium.

Airea Matthews, assistant 

director of the Zell Program, 
described 
Glück 
as 
a 

foundational voice in poetry. 
She said she hopes the reading 
inspired attendees and evoked 
emotion in each and every one.

“I hope that … they’re spoken 

to in some way, so the reading 
feels more like a conversation 
rather than anything else,” 
Matthews said.

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observed 
while 
in 
office. 

During Tuesday night’s talk, 
Davis noted that congressional 
redistricting, media business 
models that focus on elevating 
partisan viewpoints and the 
increasing amount of influence 
monied 
interests 
wield 
in 

politics have all contributed 
to the demise of the moderate 
politician.

“The Republican Conference 

has never been as conservative 
as it is now, and the Democratic 
Conference never as left as it is 
now,” Davis said.

Both congressmen noted that 

gerrymandering — a practice 
by 
which 
state 
legislatures 

manipulate electoral districts to 
favor one political party (likely 
the one most represented in 
the legislature) over another 
— and the consequent creation 
of 
politically 
homogeneous 

districts, has severely restricted 
split-ticket 
elections 
and 

encouraged people to vote based 
on party rather than specific 

candidates with whom they 
share values.

“If 
Picasso 
were 
alive 

today, he would not have to go 
through his ‘blue period’ for 
artistic fulfillment. He could 
be a drawer of congressional 
districts, get the same level of 
artistic fulfillment and probably 
a lot more money,” Davis said.

Frost added that, as a result 

of 
gerrymandering, 
voters 

are incentivized to elect more 
extreme candidates instead of 
moderate candidates.

“Divided 
government 
is 

kind of the new normal,” Frost 
said. “Since 1980, 80 percent 
of the time we’ve had divided 
government. One party has 
controlled the presidency and 
the other party has controlled 
at least one house of Congress.”

Davis and Frost added that 

much of the polarization and 
resulting policy deadlock that 
exists in Congress today is due 
to the increasing importance 
of primary elections on the 
makeup of government.

“Very few people lose in 

a primary, but they wake up 

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