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Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”
A Conversation on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, Stories, and the Surprising Power of "Once Upon a Time"
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Matthew Zapruder
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Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times
“The greatest poems demand change. Maybe we need to change to meet them.”
By
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| September 13, 2022
‘A Poem for Doom’
A Poem by Matthew Zapruder
From
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Matthew Zapruder
| September 4, 2019
What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power
Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric
By
Matthew Zapruder
| August 16, 2017
Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis
Matthew Zapruder on How One Imagination Can Activate Another
By
Matthew Zapruder
| December 6, 2016
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