Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. In this episode, Dr. Therí Pickens reads three works from her poetry collection, What Had Happened Was: "On Losing; A Hypothesis," "Potential Ode or Elegy Out My Window," and "I meet a man with a stutter."
Dr. Therí A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. She is a poet-scholar who focuses on Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature and Disability Studies. Dr. Pickens is currently the Charles A Dana Professor of English & Africana at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí A. Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling.
Learn more at: www.tpickens.org