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Poetry from Daily Life: Stumped for ideas? Start with the Most Boring Object Ever
You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild poems, too.
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The 2025 Foley poetry contest: Lyric questions about grief
On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 ...
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Fifteen Questions: Carissa J. Chen on Poetry, Harvard’s History of Slavery, and the Old Jefe’s Location | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Fifteen Questions: Carissa J. Chen on Poetry, Harvard’s History of Slavery, and the Old Jefe’s Location. Carissa J. Chen ’21 talks to Fifteen Minutes about Harvard's legacy of slavery, ...
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Five Questions: Evan Oakley on witnessing the power of poetry
Five Questions: Evan Oakley on ... Forché rose to literary prominence following the 1981 publication of “The Country Between Us,” a collection of poems written during her time in El ...
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The Poetry of Why: poet Chimwemwe Undi on a lifetime of questions in verse | CBC Radio
A conversation with Winnipeg Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi about home, belonging, racism, living downtown, and about poetry as a vehicle for life’s big questions — as her first collection of ...