Roxanne Jones: The core thing I get from poets is how to pay attention. And you broke that down the way you did as you were going through that, I thought, you know, this would be an interesting poem from the field mouse's perspective. Are those things discrete steps? Are they together? Because I often find sometimes if I'm experiencing and I have attention on something, my brain will start to say, well, let's think about how to capture this. But it's such a good question because I feel like if I were to be witnessing this thing that Mary Oliver is witnessing or if I'm looking at a hummingbird go into the B bomb,.
April is National Poetry Month and we put together this special episode to pay tribute to the late poet, Mary Oliver. Special guests James Crews, Danusha Lameris, Ross Gay, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Ginny Gay will read one of their favorite Mary Oliver poems and share why the poem is meaningful to them. Whether you are a fan of Mary Oliver's work or are just learning about her for the first time, we hope you'll be inspired by some of the beautiful poetry in this episode!
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