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“One of the things that poetry does is to bear witness to the world as it is,” Ellen Bass has said. It holds the tension “between elegy and ode, between our sorrows, despairs, and sufferings, and the praise, wonder, and awe that we feel.”

Our lives are enriched by all that poetry holds and the daily practice that is reading Poem-a-Day.

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Thank you for sharing our belief that poetry matters.

With appreciation,

Jennifer Benka
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