Welcome to the 1 Year Anniversary Episode of the Host Dispatch! In this episode, we are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of The Host Dispatch with so much joy in our hearts! We are grateful for the opportunity to connect more deeply with each other, with poetry, great literature, and with you, our dear listeners. 3 In this episode, we reflect upon our very first episode, Poetry for Quarantimes, which aired on May 26th, 2020 We discuss the ways in which the world has changed since then, and how it has changed us. We also bring More Poetry to the table to help us frame our experience of the last year. The books we discuss in this episode are: Moscow in the Plague Year by Marina Tsvetaeva (Archipelago Books) and How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions) This podcast is so dear to our hearts, and it is an honor and a joy to share it with you. As always, thanks for listening.