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May 2022
16m 59s

Tiana Clark — My Therapist Wants to Know...

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About this episode

Life can feel exhausting sometimes: how do you find rest? 

Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition.

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