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Be True, Episode 6: “When you saw me the first time” from My City of Yesterday
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Be True, Episode 6: “When you saw me the first time” from My City of Yesterday

John reads “When you saw me the first time” from his chapbook My City of Yesterday. He discusses lyric poetry, private languages, and song writing (no spoilers!).
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John reads “When you saw me the first time” from his chapbook My City of Yesterday. He discusses lyric poetry, private languages, and song writing (no spoilers!).


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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