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Poetry, Vulnerability and Finding Your Voice with Jericho Brown

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

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The Queen of Soul Is a Rita Franklin

Roxanne Jones: I didn't have an understanding of there being a canon until I was much older. She says she understood that racism existed, but her job was to be all of who we could possibly be. "It became my job to prove them wrong," the poet said about his white classmates' lack of black poets on their shelves. 'If people are subliminally telling you what they're never going to see you again, then it's really a goal of mine,' he added.

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