Imogen Arate with Jay Mercado by Poets and Muses

This Week, Jay (https://www.instagram.com/queen_iiwaa/) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Bridge Poem" and "At Least He Inspires Me to Write," and acknowledging an absence

Get Jay's poem at: http://www.aigrayson.com/buysoundest/soundest-zine-5
You can also follow Jay at https://twitter.com/queen_iiwaa
and read his work at: https://www.sorrowcircle.com/

Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of November 23rd.

Links to topics we touched on:
1. The amount of oxygen the Amazon supplies: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/
2. Hohokam: https://www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/plan-a-visit/mesa-grande/the-hohokam and https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/free-resources/fact-sheets/who-or-what-is-the-hohokam/
3. Hummingbird facts: https://www.adirondackcouncil.org/page/blog-139/news/10-facts-about-hummingbirds--and-other-interesting-tidbits-1101.html

Photo of Jay Mercado by Abrielle Meyer (https://www.instagram.com/abrielle1312/).

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