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Philip Metres reads “My Heart Like a Nation”
Philip Metres reads his poem, “My Heart Like a Nation”.
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Omar Holmon reads "Way too long since I sat by myself" by Christabel Cruz
Omar Holmon (he/him/his) reads the poem, "Way too long since I sat by myself" by Christabel Cruz.
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Omar Holmon reads "The 4C Complex"
Omar Holmon (he/him/his) reads his poem, “The 4C Complex
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Jessica Hopper reads "Morning" by Wanda Coleman
Jessica Hopper reads Wanda Coleman's poem, "Morning
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Hrishikesh Hirway reads "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Hrishikesh Hirway reads "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats.
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Hank Green reads "A Lecture on Aphids"
Hank Green reads Charles Goodrich's poem, "A Lecture on Aphids
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Faisal Mohyuddin reads "His Ashes Upstream From Where He Was Born"
Faisal Mohyuddin reads "His Ashes Upstream From Where He Was Born" by Hari Alluri.
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Dustin Pearson reads "Autobiography"
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Cameron Awkward-Rich reads "when i stand around among poets" by Lucille Clifton
Cameron Awkward-Rich (he/him/his) reads the poem, “when i stand around among poets” by Lucille Clifton.
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Aviya Kushner reads “The First Time”
Aviya Kushner reads her poem, “The First Time”.
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Andrew Gregory reads "Look Out, Natural Disasters Are Everywhere!”
Andrew Gregory reads "Look Out, Natural Disasters Are Everywhere!", written by Laura Eve Engel.
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Nicole Sealey reads "Distant Lover"
Nicole Sealey reads John Murillo's poem, “Distant Lover (Or, When You’re Teaching in Amherst and, While On a Late Night Walk, Your Wife Calls from Brooklyn to Say Goodnight)
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Julian Randall reads "On the Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents"
Julian Randall shares a poem he wrote in the aftermath of the Pulse shooting.
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Astrid Drew reads "Some Days"
Astrid Drew (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Some Days
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Abby Orbeta reads "Chameleon" ("Hunyango")
Abby Orbeta (they/them/theirs) reads their poem, “Chameleon” ("Hunyango")
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Ginny Lowe Connors - 'Tangle'
Ginny Lowe Connors’ chapbook, Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010) won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She’s published several poetry collections, including Barbarians in the Kitchen (Antrim House Books, 2005) and The Unparalleled...
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Dennis Barone 'From the Air'
Dennis Barone is a Professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph (formerly Saint Joseph College) in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently editing two poetry anthologies: New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of...
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Laurel S. Peterson "Tug"
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...
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Caridad Moro - "At Least I Didn't Rape You"
Caridad Moro is the author of TORTILLERA, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize for Florida which will be published by Texas Review Press in the Spring of 2021, as well as the chapbook Visionware, published by...
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Sam Sax reads "Everyone's an Expert at Something"
Sam Sax (he/they) reads his poem, “Everyone's an Expert at Something
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Ruth Awad reads "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home" by Meg Day
Ruth Awad (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home" by Meg Day.