When Obama was first elected, I wrote a poem that tried to capture some of the surge of hope that event occasioned. Since then, I have returned to the poem in an effort to bring it to its rightful voice. For reasons unknown, as I thought about the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and…
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Writing from the Center | The Journey of a Poem
PHOTO CREDIT: A local man helps a Syrian refugee swimming exhaustedly from a dinghy to a Lesbos beach, Sept. 17, 2015. Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Writing From the Center Writing from the Center is a new feature in the Benedictine Center's regular eBulletin. For nearly ten years we have been convening writers to explore how…
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