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The Voice of a Visionary, Not a Victim. Lucille Clifton’s Poetry

By E.K. Laing — 1988

Clifton celebrates the beauty and strength of a creation that endures. This theme gives spine to her self-portrait: “..for deLawd people say they have a hard time understanding how i go about my business playing my ray charles hollering at the kids...”

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Op-Ed: Why Storytelling is an Important Tool for Social Change

Providing ways for people to share their perspectives through storytelling initiatives can contribute to bigger changes in society and even help reduce prejudice.

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Emily Falk
2021
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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice

The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement.

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Amy Westervelt
2021
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Almost Nothing, Yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life

“If you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them,” Ellen Meloy wrote in her timeless meditation on water as a portal to transcendence, “you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.”

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Maria Popova
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The Slow Joy of Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger

“IT’S SUCH A SLOW JOY,” says poet Jane Hirshfield, about the work of revising a poem. We’ve just left the trailhead for a hike on what she calls the “hem” of Mount Tamalpais.

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Colleen Morton Busch
2020
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Jane Hirshfield’s Political Poetry Is Going Viral. She Wishes It Wouldn’t

Jane Hirshfield says environmental concerns began creeping into her poetry as early as her 1988 collection “Of Gravity & Angels,” when she was composing “poems of shared-fate awareness, and poems of the relationship of the biological and human worlds which don’t put human well-being above...

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Jessica Zack
2020
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Poet Jane Hirshfield on the Mystery of Existence

Writer Kim Rosen raises questions about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.

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Kim Rosen
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Gravity, Grace, and What Binds Us: Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Timeless Hymn to Love and the Proud Scars of the Heart

“…and when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud…”

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Maria Popova
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Yeye Luisah Teish on Storytelling, the Global Impact of Black Panther, and Expressing Your Creative Gifts

The first thing you want is to know that you belong here, that you are a part of this planet, just like the earth and the water, the sun and the wind, and the trees.

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Phil Bolsta
2019
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Stories for the Journey

What might have been a chilly and confusing morning drive to school for father and children has instead been an opportunity to weave an astonishingly intimate fabric of heart and imagination.

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Nancy Mellon
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Nancy Mellon: Storytelling as a Healing Art

We are speaking with Nancy Mellon, an elder in the global storytelling renaissance, a psychotherapist and a former Waldorf teacher who now lives in California.

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Anne Veh
2015
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