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By Wang PingAn Introduction to the folio.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn memory, oral history, and honoring elders.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn translating oral history into poetry.
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My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
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I want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
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When asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
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- PoemBy Heather ChristleToday you find yourself guilty
as the rim you split
an egg against
You press charges
You spell out your … - PoemBy Rita DoveI was sitting at home with my daughter who was young again
a child with a child’s wish to do things … - PoemBy Lee Young-juOnly as an old man did he hear the old saying that a beardless person neither ages nor dies. Shaving…
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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