Tender Bloodsport

We’ve got a super right-brain/left-brain bout this episode!Joan 'Lyric' Leslie is the author of the poetry collection "My Blackness Rhymes with Joy," and has been in competition as a member of the Java Monkey and Art Amok poetry slam teams. She co-hosts the podcast "Famous Enough" with Alex Ondraya. Here, she details the roles of a friendship with her piece on “Magic.”In the other corner, we have adventurer, improviser, yogi, creative, woodworker, outdoor enthusiast, and lover of lists Sarah Ackerman. Her grandma thinks she can wrestle bears. Sarah gave her diagnosis with her take on “Science.”This bout was recorded in front of a raucous crowd in Atlanta, Georgia.