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Jenny Xie on her selection:

Rich\\u2019s words are ones I\\u2019ve revisited, during this time of intersecting and unfurling crises, to help me think through the efficacy of the arts\\u2014particularly poetry\\u2014to respond to the clamor, the turmoil, and the extraordinary pressures of this moment. What civic responsibility do artists and writers bear? And what does it mean to write and read poetry that attempts to make sense of what\\u2019s at stake in our time? The moral clarity of Rich\\u2019s rhetoric is bracing. Her words offer a resolute commitment and a summons, along with a necessary reminder of what revolutionary power lies in hearing differently, speaking differently, imagining differently\\u2014in that hard labor of committed attention.

Poetry and Commitment: An Essay, by Adrienne Rich\\xa0

Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0