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Poetry Fridays: Patricia Smith
November 6, 2009Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry Patricia Smith’s reading of her poem “34” reminds us that poetry comes out of an oral tradition that predates written language by tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. We know the … Continue reading
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