Roger Reeves, Franny Choi, and Derrick Brown with The Helio Sequence

Live Wire with Luke Burbank

English - April 09, 2021 19:00 - 52 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
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To celebrate National Poetry Month, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share listener-penned haikus and invite three poets to the House Party; Roger Reeves tells us why poetry is the harbinger of the future; Franny Choi discusses how she incorporated Google Translate and the Turing Test into her latest collection Soft Science; and Derrick C. Brown teams up with indie band The Helio Sequence for a rhythmically-moving poetry performance.