Season 2, Episode 4: Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte: Gwendolyn Brookes, Terrance Hayes, and "The Golden Shovel"
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Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte discuss how the poetic form from Terrance Hayes' "The Golden Shovel" grew out of deeper history of race and gender in America to help us better contextualize the famous Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool."