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Aaron challenges James to a game of "Elaine Equi or Elaine Benis"; then the boys see what happens when we add one small word to a line of poetry.
Learn more about Elaine Equi's Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems here. 
Elaine Equi was nominated for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize International. See her read here.
Read Baudelaire's "Destruction" here.
Learn more about Sappho here.
 Mock Orange: Hear Louise Gluck (Taurus 4/22) read it here.
Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Desire" here.
Read Jericho Brown on the form he invented, the duplex, here.
Natasha Trethewey's third book of poetry is Native Guard. You can buy Trethewey's memoir Memorial Drive -- as well as any books authored by the genius writers we've mentioned on today's episode -- can be purchased from Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC.
 By Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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Aaron challenges James to a game of "Elaine Equi or Elaine Benis"; then the boys see what happens when we add one small word to a line of poetry.
Learn more about Elaine Equi's Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems here. 
Elaine Equi was nominated for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize International. See her read here.
Read Baudelaire's "Destruction" here.
Learn more about Sappho here.
 Mock Orange: Hear Louise Gluck (Taurus 4/22) read it here.
Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Desire" here.
Read Jericho Brown on the form he invented, the duplex, here.
Natasha Trethewey's third book of poetry is Native Guard. You can buy Trethewey's memoir Memorial Drive -- as well as any books authored by the genius writers we've mentioned on today's episode -- can be purchased from Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC.

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