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Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before

Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before

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Samyak Shertok curates poems that shift between image and narrative, between sound, silence, and simile as they create something wholly new. He introduces Joy Harjo testing the line between being an eyewitness and witnessing to (“Deer Dancer”), Li-Young Lee looking for the beloved everywhere (“Echo and Shadow”), and John Murillo braiding a complex tapestry from memory and remembering (“Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,”). To close, Shertok invites us to walk through the portals of his poem “One Hundred and Eight Doors.”

You can find the full recordings of Harjo, Lee, and Murillo on Voca:
Joy Harjo (September 16, 1987)
Li-Young Lee (September 10, 2003)
John Murillo (March 14, 2024)

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