Great Regulars: Let us do more than have an inaugural poem

or try to get a job in the new NEA. Let every office of everything have a poet in residence. Let poets work on policy language. Let poetry guide us into a world driven by empathy, and yes, generosity; a lyrical, toughly truthful, multilingual world in which we can hear the clams, the porcupines, the worker who hasn't had a break since he or she can remember, and the children who've been told to keep quiet. [--Kathy Engel]

from E. Ethelbert Miller: Foreign Policy in Focus: Fiesta!: Interview with Kathy Engel

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