This episode is a special bonus episode to our earlier interview with the 2020 Reading Across Rhode Island author Elizabeth Rush of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. 

What you are about to hear is a reading by Elizabeth of the opening chapter of Rising titled The Password. In addition, we have a second bonus episode recorded by Cranston Public Library and Living Literature, a Rhode Island based collective of artists and educators performing Rising in the form of readers theatre. You can find the author interview and the episode featuring Living Literature’s performance of Rising in your podcast feed. They were both released on 9/15/2020 (episodes 5 & 7).

This podcast is a project of the Office of Library & Information Services and is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.