Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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I'm Sending My Children Into the World
i'm really moved by your poem half staff about sending children into schools after high school shootings and an famous, you know, acts of violence in schools. We instantly wrestling with the ways that we give our children to the world and how we hold them back from it. I mean, i do have to send them into the world, but i'm also sending them into a world that they're much more aware of than before. It doesn't actually do them any favours to not know the world they live in, to not be yer to see it.
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