Poems for Company - September 23rd, 2024

Poems for Company

Sep 23 2024 | 00:28:59

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Show Notes

“Desk Jobs”: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began? Why did you do that? The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift. The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. Dorianne Laux, “What I Wouldn’t Do,” from What We Carry (BOA Editions, 1994), and used with the kind permission of the author. Deborah Garrison, “Superior,” from A Working Girl Can’t Win (Random House, 1998), and used with kind permission of the author. Stephen Dunn, “The Last Hours,” from Different Hours (Norton,...

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