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On Being with Krista Tippett
What Is Poetry?
Poem was written after students wrote me a survey about being a writer. "I began writing as refuge from our insulting first grade text book," he says. The poem is short and focused on noticing things that are not quite apparent to the eye. 'It seems like one of the things you draw out is, you know, just noticing, paying a different kind of attention'
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