E109: Real Poetry, No Pretension

Today's books are: Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a celebration of poetry with a beat, edited by Nikki Giovanni. Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008 Out of Wonder: poems celebrating poets by Kwame Alexander. Candlewick Press, 2017. Links to some of the things we talked about today: poets.org on National Poetry Month Last year's Poetry Month conversation with poet Kelly Russell Agodon on No Extra Words Poet James Berry, who was featured in Hip Hop Speaks to Children Tupac as most profane hip hop artist The Atlantic on what is a poem NPR conversation on Out of Wonder