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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
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Guerilla Garden Writing Poem - Inua Ellams
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Until the fabric speaks & the textile is a text - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
B. 1819 D. 1861
'There is no God,' the wicked saith, 'and truly it's a blessing, for what he might have done with us it's better only guessing.? - Arthur Hugh Clough 'There Is No God'
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Esther Phillips
B. 1950
I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips
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Todd Swift
B. 1966
My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. 1772 D. 1874
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.