Fire Through Dry Grass -
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Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don't look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

Episode Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 3612

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Fire Through Dry Grass

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