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For my part, I’ve inherited these heroic, epic ‘herstories,’ and through frontline resistance I’ve carried these stories, told through poetry and legal briefs, to world courts. This poem gives a ...

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Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...