E109: Real Poetry, No Pretension
No Extra Words one person's search for story
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Show Notes
Today's books are:
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a celebration of poetry with a beat, edited by Nikki Giovanni. Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008
Out of Wonder: poems celebrating poets by Kwame Alexander. Candlewick Press, 2017.
Links to some of the things we talked about today:
poets.org on National Poetry Month
Last year's Poetry Month conversation with poet Kelly Russell Agodon on No Extra Words
Poet James Berry, who was featured in Hip Hop Speaks to Children
Tupac as most profane hip hop artist
The Atlantic on what is a poem
NPR conversation on Out of Wonder