The Slowdown
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Today's poem is Essay on Reentry by Reginald Dwayne Betts. This episode originally aired on January 27, 2020.
Today's poem is Soft-Bodied Animals Leave Few Traces by Mitchell Jacobs.
Today's poem is Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim.
Today's poem is We Eat Out Together by Bernadette Mayer.
Today's poem is When Fannie Lou Hamer Said by Mahogany L. Browne.
Today's poem is Pomegranate Means Grenade by Jamaal May.
This episode originally aired on January 28, 2020.
Today's poem is Mood Ring by Jaswinder Bolina.
Today's poem is The Aisle Not Taken by Karen Poppy.
Today's poem is Climbing China's Great Wall by Afaa M. Weaver.
Today's poem is I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store by Eve L. Ewing.
Today's poem is Miz Rosa Rides the Bus by Angela Jackson.
This episode originally aired on February 24, 2020.
Today's poem is Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hirsch.
Today's poem is (First Trimester) by Craig Santos Perez.
Today's poem is Forgetfulness by Billy Collins.
Today's poem is Happiness by Paisley Rekdal.
Today's poem is Inheritance by Camille Rankine.
This episode originally aired on February 17, 2020.
Today's poem is For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose by Kristene Kaye Brown.
Today's poem is In Praise of My Threaded Eyebrows by Joshua Nguyen.
Today's poem is They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine.
Today's poem is Better or Worse by Heather McHugh.
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