Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. For today's episode I was pleased to talk to Hanif about his 2016 book The Crown Ain't Worth Much, one of my favorite reads of 2016. The poems in this book are an intensely personal account of his experiences growing up in Columbus, and in our conversation we talked about Hanif's approach to writing from experience, and how art can engender empathy. We also talked about music, a subject he's very familiar with as a music and culture writer for MTV News. For the second segment, we talked about a subject near and dear to Hanif's heart: the Columbus Blue Jackets.

(Conversation recorded January 23, 2017.)

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Show Notes:

• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain't Worth Much
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (MTV.com)
• Button Poetry
• Belly
• Nate Marshall
• Nate Marshall - Wild Hundreds
• Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - Chance the Rapper: Artist of the Year
• Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
• Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - We Can’t Stop Livin’: Listening to Marvin Gaye On the Morning After
• Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch the Throne
• Columbus Blue Jackets
• Hannah Stephenson
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 20: Hannah Stephenson
• Columbus Crew SC
• Columbus Arena District
• Columbus Clippers
• Aziza Barnes - i be, but i ain’t

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