What have you had to explore on your own? What, or who, helped?
This poem explores the archetype of the cave — a cave that calls, a cave that contains secrets and perhaps even information. “Someone standing at the mouth had / the idea to enter. To go further / than light or language could / go.” The poem manages — at once — to convey the bravery of exploration and the solitude and possibility that can accompany such journeys.
Paul Tran – is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Good Morning America, NYLON, and elsewhere, including the RZA-directed movie Love Beats Rhymes alongside Azealia Banks, Common, and Jill Scott.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
Aria Aber — The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine
Donika Kelly — In the Chapel of St. Mary’s
Linda Hogan — Song for the Turtles of the Gulf
Lory Bedikian — On the Way to Oshagan
Nico Amador — Flower Wars
Darrel Alejandro Holnes — Amending Wall
Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina
Major Jackson — Blunts
Andrés Cerpa — Seasonal without Spring: Autumn
Kaveh Akbar — How Prayer Works
Gail McConnell — Worm
Romeo Oriogun — Pink Club
Kathleen Flenniken — Married Love
Imtiaz Dharker — Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
BONUS: A Conversation with No’u Revilla
No’u Revilla — Smoke Screen
Jake Skeets — Daybreak
Tishani Doshi — Species
Jason Allen-Paisant — Right now I’m Standing
Jacob Shores-Argüello — Make Believe
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