Episode Five: To Take Back Untamed Ground

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Jun 29, 202134:47Arts

This week, poets Mona Arshi and Amara Amaryah join Eleanor Penny to discuss their reinterpretations of traditional stories. Mona imagines the experience of one of Scheherazade’s unfortunate predecessors, a young woman se...

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