In this first episode of our Poetry Bites specials, poet Graham Pergande takes a deep dive into Dorsey Craft's poem "The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care About Football" from Shenandoah's Spring 2020 issue. Find it at www.shenandoahliterary.org.

02. Irène Mathieu – Agency Within the Patterns of History and Oppression

Jul 13th, 2020 29m 27s

Irène Mathieu's writing is wrought across generations and epochs, but also in the rhythms of her own life as a black woman in America. Her day job as a practicing pediatrician influences how she feels language and history lodge themselves in th

01. Leah Naomi Green – The Soil We're Planted In

Jun 26th, 2020 33m 31s

Leah Naomi Green's poetry and prose express the intimate and wild connections she cultivates (literally and figuratively) between herself, her family and community, and the greater than human world. Her life as a homesteader in rural Virginia b

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