Three days after Hurricane Beryl, Houston's poet laureate, Aris Kian Brown, posted on Instagram, asking the city's residents to help her write a collective poem. There was one theme: They were tired of being asked to be Houston Strong. Here's the resulting poem plus a recording of her reading it, plus Houston Landing's interviews with some of the people who contributed.
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