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A poet laureate’s ‘Metaphor for America’

Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care more. (Photo courtesy of The Alluvion)

There are a few places in northern Michigan where you can spot Confederate flags flying in windows, or posted up on fences. Ahead of her Traverse City visit on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we ask the Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care moore what she makes of that.

She says having to drive past that flag strikes her as a metaphor for our country.

Read the transcript of her conversation with IPR's Austin Rowlader, and hear moore recite a poem.

Ed Ronco is IPR's news director and the local host of "Morning Edition."
Austin is a freelance reporter for IPR based in Bellaire. He also files stories with Bridge Michigan and The Antrim Review.