Laura Da’: No Easy Thing to See Deeply
About this episode
Laura Da’ discusses poems that reflect courage and identity, featuring works by James Welch, Saretta Morgan, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Laura Da’ selects poems that report back to us with forthright courage She introduces James Welch speaking with a ringing sense of sovereignty (“In My First Hard Springtime”), Saretta Morgan crossing thresholds of space and perspective (“Consequences upon arrival (i)”), and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha resolving to speak and continue speaking (“To Be Self-Evident”). Da’ closes with “A High Bank to Spare the Flood,” a poem of returning to Shawnee homelands. Find the full recordings of Welch, Morgan, an...
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Host: Laura Da’
Topics covered
- poetry
- sovereignty
- courage
- identity
- homelands
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