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Fire Through Dry Grass

Season 36 Episode 3612 | 1h 22m 59sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

An unlikely group of nursing home residents launch a movement during the pandemic.

10/30/2023 | Expires 10/30/2027 | Rating TV-14

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Fire Through Dry Grass
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Fire Through Dry Grass

Season 36 Episode 3612 | 1h 22m 59sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

An unlikely group of nursing home residents launch a movement during the pandemic.

Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...

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Fire Through Dry Grass

Season 36 Episode 3612 | 1h 22m 59sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

10/30/2023 | Expires 10/30/2027 | Rating TV-14

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