Poems of Resilience and Hope

A playlist for moments when we need encouragement. 

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"won't you celebrate with me"
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Clifton, Lucille. The Book of Light. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993.

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"SunRiders"
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Herrera, Juan Felipe. "SunRiders." Plume, no. 134, October 2022. Web. Accessed 1 March 2023.

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"Manifest"
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Hirshfield, Jane. "Manifest." The New Yorker, vol. 98, no. 24, August 15, 2022, p. 64.

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"What the Living Do"
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Howe, Marie. What the Living Do. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
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"The Trauma Sutra"
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Hopler, Jay. Still Life. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2022.

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"Ceop" / "Church"
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Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.

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"Planetarium"
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Rich, Adrienne. The Will to Change. New York: Norton, 1971.

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"The Conditional"
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Limón, Ada. Bright Dead Things. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015.

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"Transplanting"
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Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

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"Good Bones"
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Smith, Maggie. Good Bones. North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2017.

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"That American Flag"
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Tapahonso, Luci. A Radiant Curve. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008.

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"Practice"
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Voigt, Ellen Bryant. Shadow of Heaven. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

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"Heroic"
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Rekdal, Paisley. West: A Translation. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2023.

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"Further In"
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Differs from collected version.

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Tranströmer, Tomas. The Half-Finished Heaven. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001.

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"To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall"
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Addonizio, Kim. Now We're Getting Somewhere. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. 

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"A House Called Tomorrow"
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Ríos, Alberto. Not Go Away Is My Name. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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Closing Meditation
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led by Mahogany L. Browne

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Lucille Clifton
Photographer
Christine Krikliwy
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Juan Felipe Herrera
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Paola Valenzuela
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Jane Hirshfield
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Paola Valenzuela
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Marie Howe
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Ofelia Zepeda
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Paola Valenzuela
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Ada Limón
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Becka Ranta
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Ross Gay
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Hannah Ensor
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Maggie Smith
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Patri Hadad
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Luci Tapahonso
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Christine Krikliwy
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Ellen Bryant Voigt
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Christine Krikliwy
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Paisley Rekdal
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Paola Valenzuela
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Tomas Tranströmer
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Lois Shelton
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Kim Addonizio
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Patri Hadad
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Alberto Ríos
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Cybele Knowles
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Mahogany L. Browne
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Paola Valenzuela
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