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In ‘Freighted Love: Teaching, Learning, and Making a Home in the Maelstrom’ Christina Heatherton describes the connections between poetry, theories of urban space, and what geographer Clyde Woods calls ‘blues epistemology.’ In this brief introduction to her three poems, ‘Freighted Love,’ ‘Pedagogy,’ and ‘Invasions,’ Heatherton stresses the need for these connections in theory and practice. Such an understanding, she argues, offers the potential for developing more socially-minded forms of teaching and scholarship as well as ways of being in the world.