E60- Breath, Suspended

In this Short Fuse Podcast, Elizabeth Howard is in conversation with poets Diane Alters and Edward Hirsch. Both used poetry to work through the death of their sons, Armando Alters Montaño and Gabriel Landay Hirsch. Grief is an emotion we have all experienced, particularly over the last few years. We have grieved for children killed in school shootings, for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Trayvon Martin, among many others whose murders resulted from the systemic racism that threads through our society. As COVID swept across the globe we all had difficulty comprehending the enormity of this virus. Similarly, we are confronted daily with images and sounds of wars, famines, and the refugees who are left to languish in border disputes. Anger among American citizens has led to violence, leaving us to grieve for our democracy. How do we think about grief, publicly and privately?

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