A visual poem. Visit https://poets.org/poem/social-distancing to see it. About this poem, the poet said: “The solar circle poem can be read in any direction, or simultaneously with various voices at a ‘distance,’ or it can be cut out and spun like a wheel. You choose where to begin and end.”
Joy Harjo, a Native American musician, author and poet, is currently the U.S. Poet Laureate. The poem was first published in her book The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994). This recording was posted by the Poetry Foundation in April 2020 at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here
“Climbing PoeTree” is Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman. This song also features Leah Song and Chloe Smith (of the world/folk band Rising Appalachia) and the singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon on vocals.
