John reads “Sweating” from his chapbook Sometimes I Still Pray: A Family Album. He discusses response poems, his grandfather’s pride in plumbing, and the poetry of Seamus Heaney.
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 journals. In each episode of Be True, he reads and discusses one of his published poems.
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