TC Tolbert: Deep Presence
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TC Tolbert shares recordings that express a willingness to be deeply present, including a poem by Akilah Oliver that records intimacy with grief (\\u201cSelections from the Putterer\\u2019s Notebook and \\u2018An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet\\u2019\\u201d), a poem by Rigoberto Gonz\\xe1lez that brings exquisite specificity to a migrant\\u2019s narrative (\\u201cThe Bordercrosser\\u2019s Pillowbook\\u201d), and a Marie Howe poem that demonstrates the power of staying with a constraint for as long as you can (\\u201cMagdalene\\u2014The Seven Devils\\u201d). Tolbert closes by reading \\u201cDear Melissa,\\u201d an epistolary poem to an earlier self.
Listen to the full recordings of Oliver, Gonz\\xe1lez, and Howe reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Akilah Oliver (2010)
Rigoberto Gonz\\xe1lez (2010)
Marie Howe (2012)
Listen to a 2011 reading by TC Tolbert on Voca.
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