Read By: Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich on her selections: \\u202f
We have become isolated and strangely passive in many ways during this pandemic. These poems shake the reader into clarity and reassure us that our true natures, our most elegant passions, will one day again be called into the world.
\\u201cManhattan is a Lenape Word\\u201d and \\u201cIf I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert,\\u201d by Natalie Diaz
\\u201cPraise the Rain,\\u201d by Joy Harjo
\\u201cThe Museum of Stones" and \\u201cLetter to a City Under Siege,\\u201d by Carolyn Forch\\xe9
\\u201cA Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function\\u201d and \\u201cLoving that Land O\\u2019Lakes Girl,\\u201d by Eric Gansworth
\\u201cPublic Grief\\u201d and \\u201cThe Coldness Was Coldness,\\u201d by Heid E. Erdrich
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