"I was reflecting on, I was listening to this history thing. They were talking about Charlemagne and how he became the Holy Roman Emperor" "It is that insistence on I have to be special and necessary needed and important," she says of her own self-identity as an artist. 'If you go down to the atomic scale, I am enormous by that scale'
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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