Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today for the Stax Book Club we are honoring National Poetry Month.

We're discussing Wild Beauty by Intisake Shange with poet and performance artist Gabrielle Seville.

For those of you who, like me, might be a little intimidated by reading and discussing poetry,

this episode is for you. There are no spoilers today, just a conversation about how to approach

poetry and what it means to quote get it and even what a good poem is. So

take a deep breath. We got this.

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It's where we give you book recommendations based on your taste.

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