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How do we mourn? How can we grieve? I think poetry opens a door. Poetry helps us to resist.

— Mariame Kaba In Who reads poetry (2017)

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Poetry helps me to imagine freedom...Poetry can help lift the ceiling from our brains so that we can imagine liberation.

In Who Reads Poetry (2017)

Poetry can help lift the ceiling from our brains so that we can imagine liberation.

In Who reads poetry (2017)

Failure and mistakes are part of a process.

The Practices We Need: #MeToo and Transformative Justice (2018)

Poetry helps me to imagine freedom.

In Who reads poetry (2017)

With punishment at the center of everything we haven't been able to really address the other stuff that needs to happen. Because people fucking need to-they need to take accountability when they harm people.

The Practices We Need: #MeToo and Transformative Justice (2018)

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

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