Bread and Circus Diverse Voices the written word

the written word

the best she can hope for is to marry well

has been destroyed

dangerous belief system—and leader—guiding them

Bread and Circus Diverse Voices the written wordA powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphias Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it. As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed by 18th century Scottish economist Adam Smith, and his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. Bread and Circus is a direct challenge to Smiths theory of the