“but she / notices distant jagged / zones on fire where the Company battles...” U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads his poem “All the Thoughts at a Football Game” as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month.
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