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Friday Morning Politics; A Visit from RadioLab; Geo-Quiz: Queens; #AskTheMayor; Time for Poetry
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 15, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent for NPR, brings the latest national political news.
- Dennis Walcott, CEO and president of the Queens Public library system, quizzes the listeners on how well they know Queens.
- Jad Abumrad, founder and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, discusses new episodes from the Radiolab team and how the podcast has changed over time.
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, author of Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2021) and editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 (Scribner, 2021), shares some of the best recent poetry (including her own) to end the show.
