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Dr. Bethune’s Last Will & Testament
Reading
Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, was born on a South Carolina farm in 1875. The child of former slaves, she went on to become…
Hospice Staff Discuss Language, Loneliness and Empathy
The situation of the poem immediately provoked some outrage and indignation. We began to discuss the strong links between language, context, and perception. We noted how powerful it is to…
Reading
German-born poet and translator Lisel Mueller fled the Nazi regime with her family when she was 15. Her family immigrated to the US and settled in Indiana, where Mueller attended…
Young Armless Man in the Barbecue Restaurant
Reading
Brooklyn-born poet Phyllis Koestenbaum is senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. "Admission of Failure" appeared in a collection of Koestenbaum's prose poems…
Wide-Ranging Reflection on Happiness, Identity, and Connection in the Global Community
We asked questions related to what people were saying in hopes of getting the group to think further about the issues others were bringing up throughout the discussion. We also…