In Episode 1.5, Chris sits down with Maya Williams to talk about the role of poetry in public life. How can we use art to have a positive impact on our communities? There's a reading from a Gwendolyn Brooks interview, and Chris and Brendan talk about why you should almost never ask someone in service industry job their name.

Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and was selected as the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine for a July 2021 to July 2024 term.

Maya's debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available through Game Over Books (https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/judas-suicide) . Eir second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date, is available now through Harbor Editions (https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/refused-a-second-date). Maya's third poetry collection, a chapbook: What's So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? (https://gardenpartycollective.bigcartel.com/product/what-s-so-wrong-with-a-pity-party-anyway-by-maya-williams) , is available now via Garden Party Collective.

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