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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Welcome to Hard Knocks.

Today, Chris and I are going to be musing about creative collaboration. This came up as a topic of mighty interest when we were invited

to go speak at a poetry workshop that our friend of ours teaches. It's not a workshop. It's an

actual class. It's a poetry class. Am I correct? Yeah, it's at a poetry class at a university.

Someone invited us, a friend of ours invited us to come talk to his students about poetry,

seeing as how we have collaborated on a joint book of poems, which maybe a lot of you might not know about,

called the Cardio Tesseract.

Yeah.

And, you know, we had been invited to come

speak to this poetry class just because, I mean, I walked into there being like, well,

you're the poet, boo. Like, what am I going to talk about? But, you know, we brought in this book

of poems that we had written together. And we read them to the class.

And I was reminded by how good they were.

They still held up.

That felt really good.

You know, that felt great.

But I think the thing that was most interesting to me

that the class was really curious about

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