The Eras: a Poetry Tour

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

NOTES:

Gwendolyn Brooks published "The Bean Eaters" in Poetry Magazine in 1959. Check out the video of this interview with Gwendolyn Brooks.

Here is Sylvia Plath's "Aftermath." Listen to this October 1962 interview with Plath by Peter Orr for the British Council.

Read Gary Soto's "Avocado Lake."

Linda Pastan published her poem "Waiting Room" in the October 1984 issue of Poetry.

Here's Suji Kwok Kim's "Occupation" which appeared in the July 1994 Poetry. Here is a 2008 reading by Kim (~28 min).

Watch Cher introduce her song "Just Like Jesse James" during her Farewell Tour.

Read "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser.