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I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

~Ali Smith

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SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

AMHERST- Massachusetts, New York, Virginia

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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.


~Allen Ginsberg, Poet, (1926-1997)

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Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines.  It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.


~Derek Walcott, Poet (1930-2017)

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WINSLOW- Arizona, New Jersey

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In obscurity am allowed to let my wildest imaginations run amok.


~Genevieve 

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POEM

Prayer

by Jean Toomer 

My body is opaque to the soul.

Driven of the spirit, long have I sought to temper it unto the spirit’s

    longing,

But my mind, too, is opaque to the soul.

O Spirits of whom my soul is but a little finger,

Direct it to the lid of its flesh-eye.

I am weak with much giving.

I am weak the desire to give more.

(How strong a thing is the little finger!)

So weak that I have confused the body with the soul,

And the body with its little finger.

(How frail is the little finger.)

My voice could not carry to you did you dwell in stars,

O spirits of whom my soul is but a little finger . .