Poet Leonard A. Slade Jr., ‘We need to celebrate love and get to know one another’
- Author
- Marcello Iaia
- Published
- Tue 16 May 2023
- Episode Link
- https://shows.acast.com/other-voices/episodes/poet-leonard-a-slade-jr-we-need-to-celebrate-love-and-get-to
In the way most of us breathe air — an essential intake to sustain life — Leonard A. Slade Jr. breathes poetry.
He inhales the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Langston Hughes, and breathes life into their words as he recites them as naturally as if he were exhaling. Their words, entwined in his thoughts, his very identity, flow naturally in conversation.
Slade writes his own poetry, reams of it, imbued with what he has learned from a lifetime of reading literature but uniquely and personally his.
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