State of the Arts producer Christopher Benincasa follows poet Joe Weil around his home town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, stopping along the way to read work from his two recent collections – What Remains and Painting the Christmas Trees. Weil was born and raised in Elizabeth and has been described by The New York Times as personifying that town.

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