<![CDATA[Wake the Happy Words]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/wake-the-happy-words Award-winning poet Gary Miranda (www.garymiranda.com) reads from his collected poems and shares some of the stories behind them. His son Nicolas provides musical interludes.

“Miranda’s best is breathtaking. . . . Certainly we can want no better.” —Michael Heffernan, Poetry magazine

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