Rhina P. Espaillat who is currently in the news is discussed.  My friend Phil's poem is read. 

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Rhina P. Espaillat

A man living inside his own head searches for the meaning of poetry while reading works by real poets and writing poems himself.

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(peace and love peace and love, beef jerky)

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Djuna Barnes out here living 

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Djuna Barnes

It all goes around and around 

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John Berryman

I’ve returned with my rich buddy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

W.S. Merwin he's marrying women, he's writing poetry, he may have written a dark version of the Lorax. 

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W.S. Merwin

What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems! 

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Rhina P. Espaillat

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