John reads his poem “Middle Age.” He also discusses the Popeye stage of life, jazz appreciation, the trouble with priesthoods, and why we bother with poetry in the first place.
John Tessitore has been a journalist and biographer. He has taught history and literature at colleges around Boston and directed national policy studies on education and civil justice. He serves as Co-Editor Across the Pond for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. His poems have appeared in a variety of books and journals. In each episode of Be True, he reads and discusses one of his published poems.
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