she knows that michael harper dreamed of her existence she knew that if only there were a michael harperybe we could also end up with the rita dove someday. this lets me know that it is okay for me to expect that everyone ought to prepare for and no the tradition of which i was born just as i am prepared for and though the tradition for which past recipients of this honor, arthur miller, and john ashbury, were born. poetry is something we can use and it lets us know that some of the feelings that we once had, invisibility, had a lot to do with what we thought needed to be looking at us in one final wind, if you can't be free, be a mystery. it is my pleasure to present to you the novelist, the playwright , the songwriter, the recipient of the national humanities medal and the national medal of art and the author of several beloved volumes of poetry, i give you our best example, my sister, rita dove. and. oh, eric. wow. thank you, man. i'm going to try to step up onto that crystal stair. you just laid out. you >> oh jericho. thank you. i want to step up on that crystal stair you just laid

she knows how to that because she knows michael harper dreamed her existence. she knows holiday dream that if only there were michael harper, maybe we could also end up with a rita dove of some day. the poem as so many rita dove poems do, lets me know that, is okay for me to expect that everyone ought to prepare for know the tradition from which i was born just as much as i am for and know the tradition from which past recipients of this honor like ray bradbury and arthur miller and john ashbery born. if poetry is we can use then this poem fights for us. it lets us know that some of the feelings we once had of invisibility had a lot to do with who we thought needed to be looking at us. and it doubles down on that directive in one final line of a commandment. if you can't be free, be a mystery. it is my pleasure to present to you the novelist, the playwright, the the recipient of the national humanities medal from president bill clinton and national medal of arts, from president obama and the author of. several, several beloved volumes of poetry. i give you our

. >> applause mac >> canary, from michael s harper. billie holiday is a burnt voice had as many shadows as lights. a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano. the gardenia, her signature, under that ruined face. now you are cooking, drum of the base, magic spoon, magic needle, take all day if you have to with your mirror and your bracelet of song. fact is, the invention of women under siege has been to sharpen love in the surface of myth. if you can't be free, be a mystery. i love that one. >> [ applause ] >> talk about lines that remind us of the power of possibility, this column is a constellation of ancestry. before we can get to its major subjects, billie holiday, we have to understand the dedication to the great jazz poet, michael harper. i mean, by the time you get through the first line, you are already steeped in blackness. it reminds me that my ancestry, my family is an extended family, that like my hard-working forbearers, rita dove had been writing with someone in like me in mind long before ever meeting me. she knows how t

gove do this is in michael kill. gove and mark harper's hands.o this for new year and millions of people are preparing to make their christmas getaway . to make their christmas getaway. >> travel disruption expected as high winds of up to 70mph in parts of the country . the aa has parts of the country. the aa has warned of lengthy jams of traffic and there's problems on the rails to paddington station in london is expected to be closed until wednesday . closed until wednesday. well war hero and one of britain's most decorated veterans, johnson beharry vc, visited number 10 downing street this week to reflect on the amazing work that his foundation does to help young people turn their backs on gang culture and tackle knife crime head on. >> here, here? yes. >> here, here? yes. >> gb news political editor christopher hope has more for us. i'm hearing downing street with johnson beharry vc, one of our most decorated veterans. >> johnson beharry you been today in, um, 10 downing street? what were you doing there? >> uh, so i had a meeting today with,

michael mckee focuses our attention on how everyone is uncertain and looking for god's.his morning from fed chair jay powell? mike: i saw an interesting headline showing the markets -- headline describing the markets as hovering over jay powell. you'll hear the same thing you heard before. that's why i put him on the list of people who think they have done enough for the moment but keeping your options open because that is what he has said this month even after the fed decision of november 1. he said we will be cautious about not getting faked out by one month's data. we are going to raise rates if we need to. and so i think you will get more of that today if he wants to say anything at all. i assume he does because there is so much focus on it that if he did not somebody would read something into that. lisa: i am more interested in the manufacturing data that comes out at 10:00 a.m. before jay powell. ultimately will be about the data, the trajectory, some of the benchmarks people have. what do you make of the fact that we have been in recession for a full year or so in