Getting Un-Familiar

Plus The Heard, and more.

Catching up on a vast backlog of podcasts recently, I listened to an On Being interview with poet Ada Limón. This included Limón’s poem, “A New National Anthem,” which she read at her inauguration as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. You can read it, and her her read it, here.

As I listened, I thought of Laurie Anderson’s clever and deceptive…