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- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
- Home
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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