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Poets discuss Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ lyrics as poetry

Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” was released April 16.

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“The Tortured Poets Department” album cover.


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Guests: Sanna Wani, a poet and poetry editor whose latest book, “My Grief The Sun,” was released in 2022; Jody Chan’s most recent volume of poems, “impact statement,” came out earlier this year and they are an artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Queer and Trans Research Lab; Adam Dickinson, an author of four books of poetry and a professor in the Department of English language at Brock University.

Sarah Laing

Sarah Laing is a Toronto-based freelance contributor for The Star, writing about celebrity and culture. Follow her on X: @sarahjanelaing.

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