“Poetry! What Is It Good For?”
As the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 national tragedy approaches, you are invited to listen to the BCR Podcast to be released on 9/8/2021. It will feature a dialogue with poets Cornelius Eady and J. Chester Johnson focusing on their poems and prose dealing with the 9/11 national tragedy and the effects on the first responders to the devastation that occurred on that fateful day.
9/11 Poems and Prose Featured
by Cornelius Eady:
- “Communion”,
- “Grief Bird”,
- “Don’t Bum Out The Musicians”;
- prose: “Postcard from New York”, appearing in Ploughshares.
by J. Chester Johnson:
- “St. Paul’s Chapel”,
- “Fear of Flying”;
- prose: “Writing Verse About 9/11”, appearing on the Best American Poetry Blog.
