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Your host is poet and author Marjorie Maddox, a Monson Arts Fellow, author of twenty books, and professor of English and creative writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University. Some poems are meant for carrying around in your pocket or for taping above your desk.

Poem of the Week, by Ross Gay

And you would throw back your head and open your mouth at the cows lowing their human songs in the field, and the pigs swimming in shit and clover, and everything on this earth, little dreamer, little dreamer of the new world, holy, every rain drop and sand grain and blade of grass worthy of gasp and joy and love, tiny shaman, tiny blood thrust, tiny trillion cells trilling and trilling, little dreamer, little hard hat, little heartbeat, little best of me.

Poetry Moment: 'Thank You', by Ross Gay

In this concise poem, Ross Gay gives us this message with viseral imagery. These are the rare moments of awareness of how brief and precious is life, that all you love will turn to dust. Pay attention he says, but do not respond in anger or in fear; he says it three times to be sure we hear the message.