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Podcast: At Sea with Justin McRoberts
Episode: Poetry, Love and Control
Description: A number of years ago, I sat in on a reading by the poet Gregory Orr. Gregory Or was then (and is now) a favorite poet of mine. In fact, he’s a favorite writer of mine. He was maybe five or six pieces into this reading when a conversation struck up between two of the other gentleman in the room. Sitting behind me, I heard one of them saying, loudly enough for me to hear, “I don’t understand any of this” I’d definitely heard that about poetry or about poems before. I’ve probably eve...