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Poetry in a Time of Protest [2017]

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/poetry-in-a-time-of-protest CULTURAL COMMENT POETRY IN A TIME OF PROTEST By Edwidge Danticat January 31, 2017 The day that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States, I went to hear the Alabama-based poet Ashley M. Jones read from her book “Magic City Gospel” at my local bookstore in Miami, a city that