673: New Town | The Slowdown
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Today’s poem is New Town by Aleksandar Hemon
May 12, 2022 673: New Town Play Episode 5:18 May 12, 2022 673: New Town Transcript I’m Ada Limón and this is The Slowdown . Most of my friends have family histories that include some level of outsider experience. Whether they were immigrants from Mexico or Central America or Vietnam or immigrants from Ireland or Poland or Somalia, or expatriates living outside the United States, the stories of family and how their lives were made in new places always fascinates me and humbles me. In order to enter a new country, to call a new country home, one must figure out how to survive there. That work of
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