Welcome to The Librarian Is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

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This episode's all poetry
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"Let's Not Begin" by Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (which will be in the NYPL catalog ASAP!)

Debths by Susan Howe

"To the Guanacos at the Syracuse Zoo" by Chen Chen, from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Bull by David Elliot

"Family Tree" by Kate Rushin, from The Black Back-Ups (and Rushin reading “On the Eastern Shore,” on NPR in 2004)

Antiquity Echoes:  A Photographed Tour of Abandoned America by Rusty Tagliareni and Christina Mathews

Let's Marry Said the Cherry by N.M. Bodecker

And the classic poem that Frank will never forget:

Also... Celine Dion is amazing.

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