This month, in honor of our first episode falling at the close of National Poetry month we’ve decided to tackle the widely held idea the poetry is boring, old-fashioned, and academic. Don’t think we can do it? Well, there’s a book for that! “Of Protest and Poetry: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin” edited and compiled by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, is the perfect way to prove to yourself that poetry is NONE of those things. Instead this book is poetry meets history meets memoir meets social justice movement.

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