Poetry communicates, teaches, and binds us together. Parisa Akhbari (@authorparisa) a mental health therapist and writer from Seattle, Washington joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on her YA novel, Just Another Epic Love Poem, which follows two queer best friends in Catholic school as they fall in love through the pages of a never-ending poem they’ve been writing back and forth for five years. Al so featured are Youth Poet Ambassadors from the Marin Poetry Center, Naomi Ko and Cade Palmer along with their mentor Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, and author & poet Jennie Orvino reading the works of Naomi Shihab Nye.