Sheera Talpaz is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Creative Writing program, where she received a Hopwood Award in poetry. She earned her BA with Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and has since returned to the city, where she currently works and maybe writes poems.
A: First of all, you can put away your old-school notions about the liberal arts. Back when you grew up, Plato banished poets from his Republic. These days, there is…