John reads a passage from William Blake's poem "America: A Prophecy." He discusses early hopes for the U.S., weird freedoms, our distance from the original ideal, and the return of the Lizard King.
John Tessitore has been a journalist, editor, and biographer. He has taught history and literature at colleges around Boston, managed national policy studies on education and civil justice, and directs a language-education association. 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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