“What’s your story in the time that you’re here?”

Cornelius Eady with Clemonce Heard on jazz solos, memorializing Black deaths, and the whispers that filled his high school hallways after the first poem he ever wrote. Mentioned in this episode: “Gratitude” by Cornelius Eady from The Gathering of My Name Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay “The Dance” by Cornelius Eady “Atomic Prayer” by Cornelius Eady from The Gathering of My Name “Father Figures” released October 10, 2022 by BBC The Documentary “Perry” written and sung by Cornelius Eady with The Cornelius Eady Trio The Poet and the Poem with Grace Cavalieri 2021 - 2022 series, episode with Cornelius Eady “Rodney King Blues” by Cornelius Eady from The Autobiography of a Jukebox “The Ghost, the Mountain” by Cornelius Eady “Lexicon” and “Baraka Hates Phillis” by Cornelius Eady “On Being Brought From Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley