Sally Wen Mao: Poetic Awakening
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Sally Wen Mao shares poems that trace her awakening as a poet, invoking teachers both in person and on the page. She introduces Claribel Alegr\\xeda on how to express the unknowable and untraceable (\\u201cSavoir Faire\\u201d), Terrance Hayes on transformation as the role of poetry in the world (\\u201cThe Deer\\u201d), and Bhanu Kapil on poetic language as a means of collapsing borders (\\u201cHumanimal\\u201d). Mao concludes with her poem \\u201ca dream or a fox,\\u201d written after Lucille Clifton\\u2019s \\u201cA Dream of Foxes.\\u201d\\xa0
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Claribel Alegr\\xeda (1997)
Terrance Hayes (2016)
Bhanu Kapil (2008)