Host Emily chats with author, poet, essaysist (and more), Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, the 2025 Reading Across Rhode Island title. They talk about the book, their dogs, and unofficial sister cities Columbus, OH and Providence, RI. Abdurraqib will be in Rhode Island for a free author event on April 22, 2025. Grab your seat today!

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Books

Jailbreak of Sparrows by Martin Espada

Pathemata: Or, the Story of my Mouth by Maggie Nelson

Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph

Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib

Media

All Cylinders - Yves Jarvis

Hope Handwritten - Hope Tala

Everything is Recorded - Richard Russel and others

Off with her Head - Banks

Other

Essay - Anne Carson, Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

Hanif Interview with Song Exploder, Key Change: Hanif Abdurraqib on The Clash

Franny Choi, Poet and Essayist