5.2: Exercising Sacred Citizenship: Interview with Poet Laureate Regie Gibson
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5.2: Exercising Sacred Citizenship: Interview with Poet Laureate Regie Gibson
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Happy 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride! Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson is the guest in this episode, and we talk about the role of poetry in society and about Paul Revere's life. He shares his poem “Dear Paul Revere, or Forge, Shape, Shine” and we discuss his process for creating this piece that explores what Revere’s legacy means today. To round out the show, high school interns Arabella and Veronica share a bit about what they learned about history.
- Regie's website
- Phillis Wheatley postage stamp
- Just the recording and text of "Dear Paul Revere" by Regie Gibson
- Text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”
- A digitized recording of “Paul Revere (Won’t You Ride for Us Again)”
Regie’s recommendations:
- Walt Whitman – Link to online edition of Leaves of Grass
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- David McCullough
- What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
https://www.paulreverehouse.org/
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