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Jericho Brown – Small Truths and Other Surprises

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You Can't Love Me Unless You Love Politically

i feel like you are nat born conversationalist. I said this to vexed, you're easy. We haven't mentioned the word politics now. Every poem is a political poem. So say the masters, every love poem is political. Every political poem must fall in love. Tell us tell you how to love me. No, tell us. Take us inside this very no, am just, i think i'm interested in all of people. And there's something in us that wants to really take people down to some sort of census report. If we could just love each a little more whole, we all would be a lot better off. That's what i want my poems to...

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