Dr. Dara Barnat is head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University (TAU), and author of the poetry collections Headwind Migration, In the Absence and The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global Connection, Barnat joins host Anna Sajecki to talk about her journey to Tel Aviv as an international student, discovering her poetic voice in Israel, the influence of Walt Whitman, and capturing Tel Aviv in poetry.