Poetry can be powerful because it succinctly puts a voice to innermost feelings and can provide a dialogue for our experience. People tend to write poetry when in the midst of powerful emotions, using it to process questions, anxieties, grief, anger, and optimism, so this National Poetry Month we’re turning to poetry for uncertain times.
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Read More >Although there are several books of correspondence between Langston Hughes and his contemporaries, none so far have closely explored Langston’s politics, from the early 1930s to his death in 1967. Letters from Langston, …
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