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Poetry & speaking your truth

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Prelude to Bruise

Prelude to Bruise is a song from a tightrope, balancing ecstatic existence and the chaos that always threatens to engulf a life on the margins.

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Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world.

Miguel M. Morales (editor), Bruce Owens Grimm (editor), Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini (editor)

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Amanda Gorman: Using Your Voice Is a Political Choice

For anyone who believes poetry is stuffy or elitist, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman has some characteristically well-chosen words. According to Amanda, poetry is for everyone, because at its core it’s all about connection and collaboration.

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The Art of the Metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

How do metaphors help us better understand the world? And, what makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to life. Lesson by Jane Hirshfield, animation by Ben Pearce

Jane Hirshfield

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NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation.

Billy-Ray Belcourt

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The Creative Collectives Finding Strength in Numbers

The 1960s and ’70s stand as an era of artistic community — of collectives: musicians and writers, artists and architects, photographers and filmmakers listening, arguing and creating with each other. Now they're rediscovering their power.

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Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England

Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans.

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Redefined - Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo, poet, spiritual teacher, and bestselling author of twenty-two books, reflects tenderly on the moments that have transformed his writing, creativity, and relationships. Mark also reveals how he developed the tools to heal his pain, live through his heart, and put a premium on the present.

Redefined with Zainab Salbi

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Redefined - Yung Pueblo

As an Ecuadorian immigrant living in poverty and seeking safety—and later facing rock bottom while confronting substance abuse—poet Diego Perez had a long way to go to find his center.

Redefined with Zainab Salbi

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