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Finding awe... are you able to?

Finding awe... are you able to?

Jacqueline Suskin, poet of 40,000 spontaneous poems, on how to capture a stranger's longing

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Carissa Potter
Mar 18, 2022
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Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and the creator of Poem Store, a roving venue for spontaneous poetry commissioned by everyday strangers. Through Poem Store she has written over 40,000 poems (probably a low estimate) and tapped into the lives and hopes and longings and fears of thousands of strangers who needed help putting some part of themselves into words…

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