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Podcast: Poetry Unbound
Episode: Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar
Description: A note from the Poetry Unbound team:We’ve updated the audio for our episode “Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar.” This updated version includes an additional stanza initially omitted from the recording and additional reflection from Pádraig.How can russet potatoes be made to taste of sugar and caramel? By dedication, love, and craft. Amanda Gunn places her poetry in conversation with the farming and culinary skills of her forebears: women who cultivated land, survival, strength, and family bonds.Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older b...