First Draft - Best of 2021 Michael Kleber-Diggs

1

Introduction

00:00 • 6min

2

Is There a Collection in Here?

05:43 • 3min

3

Women's Poems

08:34 • 2min

4

A Thin You, O My Mother's Face

10:41 • 6min

5

Superman and My Brother, Spider Man and Me, Part Two

16:28 • 5min

6

My Father Was Killed, Is That What You Think?

21:52 • 4min

7

I Love My Neighborhoods as I Love Self

25:25 • 4min

8

Parenting the Way You Were Parented

29:06 • 2min

9

I'm Close to My Brother

31:34 • 4min

10

The Death of Your Father

36:03 • 2min

11

A Poem About Mortality, Gloria Mundi

38:18 • 4min

12

My Ultimate Thought Is This

42:02 • 2min

13

I'm a Poet, Come On

43:35 • 3min

14

A Black Man Dies After Coma

46:12 • 5min

15

I've a Tendency to Read the Poems About Institutional Violence

51:13 • 3min

16

Do You Love This Nation?

54:14 • 3min

17

The Cover by Wing Young Hewe, a Photographer at Milkweed

57:40 • 2min

18

Poetics - A Poem About Reaching Out

01:00:00 • 3min

19

I Love My Father, but He Frightened Me

01:03:02 • 4min

20

How Do You Deal With Rejection?

01:06:57 • 3min

21

First Draft Writers

01:09:41 • 3min