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Cicada III
From This Land Press | Part of the Poetry to the People series | 02:35
Cicada III is a communal reading of a poem by Oklahoma native Scott Aycock. In addition to Aycock's poem, we bring you a granddaughter's grief and a smoker's thoughts on mortality.
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Cicada III is the first installment of Poetry to the People, a project of This Land Press to get poetry off the page and take it to the streets. Cicada III is a poem about an aging grandfather who is on the verge of passing away. People from all walks of life read the poem and react to it. A young woman cries because of the poem's honest look at mortality. When her own grandfather passed away her family never spoke about the last, painful year of his life. This is contrasted by the comments of a man who enjoys smoking and drinking and is prepared to die in his 60s. Reading the poem on the street forces the readers to take a moment and meditate on life, death, nature, love, loss and family.
Episode 1 - Where is Oklahoma?
From This Land Press | Part of the This Land Radio series | 58:56
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we ask the question on every Oklahoman’s mind: Where the heck are we, anyway? Are we in the South, the Midwest, the West? What is our regional identity? Co-hosts Sarah Geis and Abby Wendle are your guides through the hour.
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In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we ask the question on every Oklahoman’s mind: Where the heck are we, anyway? Are we in the South, the Midwest, the West? What is our regional identity? Co-hosts Sarah Geis and Abby Wendle are your guides through the hour.
We embark on an exploration of this question with Russell Cobb, This Land’s contributing editor who can’t find his socks. We talk with Ginger Strand, a New York-based writer who imposed herself for awhile on some Oklahoma fish biologists.
We follow the This Land Fiction Editor, Jeff Martin, as he wanders what he calls the Southern Plains, pulling new fiction from Alan Heathcock and John Crowley from the hard ground.
Lastly, Grammy-nominated musician John Fullbright offers thoughts between musical sets to tide us over until next week.
