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Anonymous Grocer 11/30: [Themselves than larger places go]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today, we tune in our poetry radios to Naomi Shihab Nye, a true force of goodness in this world. A global champion for young people’s literature and for the education and celebration of Arab American heritage, the poet currently serves as the April 2022 Guest Editor for Poets.org’s Poem-a-Day series. 
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 10/30: [Voice clearest the is hear cannot]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today’s episode features the hard-of-hearing, Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky. As Russian invasions continue to menace through Ukraine, Kaminsky’s poem, ‘We Lived Happily During the War’ (which was published in 2013 during the first Maidan protests), has been shared widely once again as a symbol, a talisman of poetry’s tenacious power  to rally people in times of crisis. A subversive siren, calling on us to confront who we are, where do our responsibilities lie, when will we rise up, how will we act?
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 9/30: [Teeth, their in limbs]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
On this fine Day 9, I present you with the Korean-American poet, Jihyun Yun. After listening to today’s episode, I encourage you to pick up a copy of her collection, Some Are Always Hungry. Through recipes, rationing, and animal dismemberment, Yun presents a reclamation of identity and womanhood. She uses food in all its mythical and visceral manifestations to expose and interrogate the inequalities and sacrifices, the leavings and desires that propel humans to protect one another and tear each other apart.
 
Discover more about this poet here. 
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 8/30: [Tongue my of shape]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
We’ve arrived at Week 2 of Poetry Month – woohoo! If you’ve made it this far in the listening party, I thank you for being here! Today, we return to the poetry of yore with Rumi, a 13th-century Persian Sufi mystic and poet. (Here’s a fun fact: the beloved poet Mary Oliver would read from her Rumi collection every day!) 
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 7/30: [Genocide from museum]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
It’s Day 7, folks! Today we celebrate with poetry by CA Conrad, whose somatic poetry rituals are spells to live and transgress by. 
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 6/30: [Water the across home]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today’s episode celebrates the poet Ai, who was a true master of the poem-as-monologue. Her poems are character studies, character sketches, allowing us to step inside alternate bone structures, embody another psyche, wear the grueling and sometimes crueling mask of someone else entirely.
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 5/30: [Orange an just]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
This week, I’ve been immersed in the poetic palette of Derek Jarman’s 1994 book, Chroma — an extraordinary meditation (liberation?) on colors, gardens, art-making, and illness. Elastic and visionary, fusing the ancient and modern, autobiography with quotes and puns and poetry, a whole carpet of voices and colors emerge: chapter by chapter, each color a chapter, Jarman traces the cultural and emotional histories of color, the lightness and the shadows, the multiplicities of every hue. Even more extraordinary, Jarman wrote Chroma on the edge of blindness — with lesions on his retina, he becomes a conduit for a new way of seeing and expressing the world. 
 
One such lyric he weaves into Chroma is the 19th-century poet Christina Rossetti’s “What is Pink?” — a rainbow of a poem that encourages wondering, wandering, and the awesomeness of possibilities.
 
Discover more about this poet here, and please treat yourself to Derek’s Chroma, too!
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 4/30: [Mysteries their of wrote]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today on Day 4, we’re slowing our roll with the nature-forward poetry of Sarah Howe. I am just in awe of her lush vocabulary, and didn’t want to rush this one. I hope you feel the moss-magic as I do! 
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam

Anonymous Grocer 3/30: [Remember is life.]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today is Day 3 of National Poetry Month, and today we celebrate with poet and musician, Joy Harjo! Harjo was appointed as the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2019 by the Librarian of Congress, and is currently serving her third term. She is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam
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Anonymous Grocer 2/30: [Body the only take]

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Hello friend! 
 
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day. 
 
Today, Day 2, we continue the series with Lauren K. Alleyne, whose poems bear witness to many troublesome and achingly vulnerable bodily experiences on Earth, while also leaving room for the illumination of the hopeful, resilient, transcendent human spirit — a poetic swiveling that is both seamless and wants you to look, name, rub your finger over the seams.
 
Discover more about this poet here.
Need to study up on what a ghazal is? I’ve got you covered! 
Do you have requests for poems or poets you’d like to see featured in future Anonymous Grocer episodes? I’d love to hear from you!
Peace and love,
Cam
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