2019: Now That's Poetry

Boston Public Radio Podcast

English - July 18, 2019 19:30 - 2 hours - 72.9 MB - ★★★★ - 429 ratings
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Today on Boston Public Radio:

Jim And Margery talked to New York Times Magazine staff writer and lecturer at Yale Law

School, Emily Bazelon whose latest book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, looks at the causes of Mass Incarceration

Environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org discussed his latest book, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

MIT economists Jonathon Gruber and Simon Johnson discussed their latest book: Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

TC Boyle joined Jim and Margery to talk about his latest novel Outside Looking In.

Poet Richard Blanco gave a crash course on the literary tools that can make your poetry more poetic.