What’s the Use of Reading? Literature and Empathy | Beth Ann Fennelly | TEDxUniversityofMississippi

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Reading literature educates us emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually, according to poet and author Beth Ann Fennelly, who joins her two decades of experience in the classroom with new studies from the emerging field of literary neuroscience to prove that reading literature makes us more empathetic. Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year