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Why We Will Need Walt Whitman in 2020

Portrait of an Iraqi Poet as a Protester

We Need More Poetry in Politics

The Trick to Life Is to Keep Moving

How I Learned to Fail Better

FaceApp and the Savage Shock of Aging

Writing With Your Eyes Closed

‘We Will Not Be Exorcised’

Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty?

The Cautionary Tale of the ‘Female Byron’

The Poet Who Planted Trees

An Introvert’s Guide to Friendship

The Land of Altered Bodies

Remaking the World: Poetry and Disability

Who Wants to Be a Bust in the Hall of Fame?

What Kept Me From Killing Myself

How You Are Showing Up This Year

To Make Prisons ‘Safer,’ Some Are Banning . . . Books

Neruda, Pinochet and Rumors of Murder

Trump Is Inspirational ... for Poetry