
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (Re-air)
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The Life of a Bell Ringer, Henry Martin
Henry martin is a bell ringer at the university of virginia in charlottesville. He has written a poem about thomas jefferson, who was one of the writers of the declaration of independence. But he himself kept slaves and even had a child by one of those slaves. Martin: "If we don't address this, we are not going to survive as a nation"
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