Brian Lair on WNYC and for our last 15 minutes this morning as we await results from this apparently toss-up presidential election.

Let's move past the polls and the ads and the yard signs and the buttons and reflect on voting and how lucky we are to be able to

participate like this, something some of us got access to more recently in American history than

others, right? We're joined for this once more by Steve Zitland and Bob Holman to hear

some poems, stories, and maybe a few of your calls about when voting meant something special to you,

maybe just this morning. They were here in 2022. Some of you may recall as they started their

project called All the Voices Crossing the Great Divide,

and they heard from so many of you at that time. So they're back for this election day.

Bob Holman is a poet, filmmaker, and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club.

And joining us from the birthplace of democracy, you might call it.

Greece is Steve Zaitland, the founding

director of city law, and author of the poetry of everyday life, storytelling, and the art

of awareness.

Hey, Steve, hey, Bob.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Great to be here, Brian.

What a day.

What a day. I see you've added an S to the subtitle

of your project. It's no longer crossing the Great Divide. It's crossing the Great Divides.

Why that change? The more that we found the Great Divide, the more than we realized it had to divide itself.

After October 7th, we realized that it wasn't only a divide between Republicans and Democrats, but there were a series of divides.

And we ended up thinking that really, the way to cross the great divide is realizing that there are many divides.

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