In today's flash briefing reading, we get you to the last sneak peek before Thursday's episode. Rachel reads "Aubade with Burning City" by Ocean Vuong. Listen in, enjoy the poem, and prepare yourselves for tomorrow on The Great British Baking Show. Ocean's poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56769/aubade-with-burning-city Rachel: Raised in a Jewish family in Memphis, TN, Rachel Edelman's poems examine how humans confront and evade the destruction we have wrought. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and residencies from Crosstown Arts, Mineral School, the Academy of American Poets, and the University of Washington. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English and geology from Amherst College. She works as an Upper School English teacher at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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