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Podcast: Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws
Episode: Episode 10: Boy with his Hair Cut Short by Muriel Rukeyser.
Description: Another piece from Illustrated Poems that I presumed was about the Black experience when I was a child as the picture shows it to be so. I still believe the poem relates racial as well as economic disparities. And likely it could also have been written about pre- WW 2 Depression-era job hunting as well though I randomly mention the 40s and 50s here. All these podcasts, after all, are recorded off the cuff, with nil notes, as jazzy thought riffs, in the moment, on the poem at hand.