{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoices-of-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fepisode-3-jojo-bE8m_gUl","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 3: Jordan","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e35cdbbb-cf98-47cf-a62e-0ad0d141b2dd/ae74f3ce-2c1c-42a3-85d2-de01207e9b01/6.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/7548f54b-68bf-456a-bff8-c70f5d8dcc55\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Episode 3: Jordan\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Jordan Rich joins Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum in conversation and to read her poem \"How to Build a Closet,\" featured in A NEW LAND, a poetry anthology from The Telling Room. Stuart and Jordan discuss the genre of queer poetry, writing representation into literature that is positive and healing, using real life experience, sharing as a relief, words as power, workshopping writing, and the treatment of self-acceptance and self-love in a queer context. Jordan is now a student at Bay Path University studying child psychology."}