'Just Listen' is taken from the collection Eduardo & "I" by Peter Johnson. Johnson teaches creative writing and children's literature at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
To mark National Poetry Month, NPR.org is featuring a series of newly published works selected by the Academy of American Poets. Learn more about this and other titles at the academy's New Spring Books list.
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