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Producer Curtis Fox explores the diverse world of contemporary American poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously.
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A Name Like a Handcuff

Reginald Dwayne Betts reads his poems and discusses why he is “no longer a black poet.”

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