707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction | The Slowdown
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Today’s poem is Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction by Laura Cresté.
June 29, 2022 707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction Play Episode 5:12 June 29, 2022 707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction Transcript I’m Ada Limón and this is The Slowdown . On May 24, an 18-year-old shot and killed 19 children and two teachers in a fourth grade class in Uvalde, Texas. Twenty-one lives taken and it seems too much to write about, talk about. Even talking about grief feels too hard. There are moments when language fails and this is one of them. The children in my life are already going through so much. They are dealing with the pandemic,
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