"My Favorite Poem": Jeremy Richards

Over the course of filming these videos, I've only encountered two legitimate snafus: one involves an escalator security woman, the other involves a library (more on that later this week). Apparently, "hovering" near escalators poses a security threat—or poetry does. I prefer the latter.

Either way, today Jeremy Richards reads William Stafford and goes down an escalator and right through what very well could have been an important meeting between important poeple.

Poetry slows down for no one.

Jeremy Richards is a multifaceted poet whose work has appeared in "McSweeney's", "The Poetry Foundation", "The Spoken Word Revolution Redux" and many others. He works as a radio producer for KUOW, was a two-time Seattle National Poetry Slam team member, performed on HBO's Def Poetry and put on a musical last Spring entitled "Nietzsche! The Musical". In short, Jeremy is the kind of person that does everything exceptionally well, all the while mainting a veritable quietude. It doesn't hurt that he's a snappy dresser, to boot.

Upon first meeting him, I never expected he was the guy that rapped as a reincarnated T.S. Eliot. Dude has flow.

See you tomorrow for another serving of "My Favorite Poem".

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