Sophia Terazawa: Enemy, Beloved
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Sophia Terazawa introduces poems that lead us to encounter both the beloved and the enemy, seeing them blurred and intertwined\\u2014seeing them as human. She shares Joy Harjo\\u2019s prayer of courage for the heart (\\u201cThis Morning I Pray for My Enemies\\u201d), Khaled Mattawa\\u2019s recognition of the faceless dead (\\u201cFace: To the One Million Plus\\u201d), and Carolyn Forch\\xe9\\u2019s liturgy for the last hour (\\u201cPrayer\\u201d). To close, Terazawa reads her poem \\u201cGibbons Howling,\\u201d a prayer spoken from dreams into dust.\\xa0 \\xa0
Watch the full recordings of Harjo, Mattawa, and Forch\\xe9 reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Joy Harjo (2017)
Khaled Mattawa (2018)
Carolyn Forch\\xe9 (2007)