Episode Synopsis "Stanley E. Banks"

Kansas City poet and professor Stanley E. Banks, artist in residence at Avila University talks about his writing process and what inspires him, what makes a poem work, and how to do that as a poet. He reads two of his poems: Carl, and A Black and Blue Woman. Maryfrances Wagner, Missouri's sixth poet laureate, conducts the interview.

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