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April is the saddest month - how poetry offers support in hard times.

April is the saddest month - how poetry offers support in hard times.

Using poetry as a tool to connect and reflect on life's complexities. With Jennifer Michael Hecht on her new book, The Wonder Paradox.

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Carissa Potter
Mar 23, 2023
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“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”

―T.S. Eliot,The Waste Land

This is my second interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht, historian, and poet, author of Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and most recently, The Wonder Paradox. I am a person that somehow for some reas…

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