What Werk Is

The queens have one thing to say: you better werk!

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SHOW NOTES:

Click here to read Philip Levine's "What Work Is"

Read more about Philip Levine

Read Ada Límon's poem “How We Are Made” dedicated to Levine, who was her teacher. Límon talks about Levine in this interview.

Read the iconic and heartbreaking James L. White poem "Making Love to Myself"

You can watch Jimmy Merrill read from his 560-page epic poem “The Changing Light at Sandover” in this 12-minute clip.

Read more about the Academy of American Poets's Poem-a-Day series here.

Read Carl Phillips’s Poem-a-Day that James loves: “That Part in the Music”

And check out Poetry Daily: https://poems.com