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Today we present Part 2 of the Producer’s Choice Awards – The Poetry Show. Poetry – Many might turn away at even the mention of the word, but to do so would miss out on work that reveals humans grappling with the great questions of their moments. Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – …

Today we feature the radical work of Muriel Rukeyser, whose poetics treatise, The Life of Poetry, first published in 1949, can be called an anti-Fascist manifesto. We struggle at times to place Rukeyser inside our understanding of politics and poetry as she herself struggled to not be placed – like Thoreau, she did not wish to be regarded as a …