Our Poetry Bonanza has arrived! In this episode --titled to pay homage to Frank's favorite Emily Dickinson stanza-- he and Gwen get to read and hear poetry recommendations from their listeners.
Listener Poetry Recommendations:
"My Mother Says I am Sickening" in The New Kid On the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky
\u201cGood Hot Dogs\u201d by Sandra Cisneros in A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poems for Children by Caroline Kennedy
"Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" in Selected Poem\xa0by Mary Ruefle
"Kal" in \xa0If They Come for Us by Fatima Asghar
The title poem in What the Living Do: Poems \xa0by Marie Howe
"What Resembles the Grave But Isn't" by Anne Boyer
IRL by Tommy Pico
The title poem in Inventory\xa0by Dionne Brand
"I want a dyke for president" by Zoe Leonard\xa0
"Girls of the Wild" in Wild Embers \xa0by Nakita Gill
"Fold" in You & Yours by\xa0Naomi Shihab Nye
"Scientific Romance" by Tim Pratt
"Where the Mind is Without Fear" from Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore
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