Adam Walker
Public scholar and recent Harvard English PhD focused on spiritual poetics who founded the Versed community to teach university-level literature and poetry as a spiritual practice to non-academic readers.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 1h 14min
Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Bridging the Chasm Between Academia and the Public | John Vervaeke & Adam Walker
Adam Walker, a recent Harvard English PhD who founded Versed to teach poetry as spiritual practice to the public, discusses reclaiming poetry from academic insularity. Short conversations cover why universities drift from teaching, imagination as an epistemic faculty, digital attention erosion, and how close reading and dialogic classrooms might spark a cultural renewal.
