What Sparks Poetry:
Dustin Pearson on Jillian Weise's "Beautiful Freak Show"
“Up until encountering Jillian’s poetry, I’d more or less repressed or compartmentalized the emotions I felt as a result of my marginalization and always ultimately unsuccessful assimilation, both for fear of how dangerous I thought it was to indulge those emotions and out of societally formed habit. I found a way to misplace, overlook, or normalize horrible things, even if I always survived them." |
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Neil Gaiman Writes a Poem for Refugees
When Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers to share what reminded them of warmth, he received nearly 1,000 replies and, "found himself with a 25,000-word document, from which he has composed his newest written work: a freeform poem to launch UNHCR’s Winter Emergency Appeal for refugees across the Middle East."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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