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A celebration of National Poetry Month with Heather Sweeney

Heather Sweeney joins me live on YouTube on 4/19/21 to read from her poems about social media. The Book of Likes (2021) comes out from The Hunger Press this month.

Heather, her editors Lena Ziegler and Erin Slaughter, and I will be live in conversation.

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Some awesome people joined me for informal conversations on YouTube in 2020. Check out live conversations you may have missed.

Last Feature Interview: Aaron Shepard, robotics student and 3 time NASA intern

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