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Long River Review

UConn's Literary & Arts Magazine

Day: April 19, 2015

A Bunch of Reasons Why Poetry is Important (to me)

LRR, April 19, 2015February 8, 2025

Poetry is like when a stranger tells you your backpack is open and then proceeds to zip it up for you; it is small and momentary and connected. Loving poetry takes patience. It takes some sickness, too. It takes the small discs in your back and your esophagus, the spaces…

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