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The Book Show #1529 - Tyehimba Jess

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published November 7, 2017 at 3:00 PM EST
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Tyehimba Jess’ poetry serves as a bridge between “slam poetry” and other American verse traditions. His second collection Olio, which celebrates the unrecorded and largely unknown Black musicians and orators of the 19th and early 20th centuries, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

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