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# [Poetry Unbound](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/)

[Kitchen Hymns](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/kitchen-hymns)

[Saying the things you want to say](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/kitchen-hymns)

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### Recent posts

[Solstice stories](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/solstice-stories)

[this June day](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/solstice-stories)

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[Exploring the present with the past](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/exploring-the-present-with-the-past)

[and how conversations with centuries are contemporary](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/exploring-the-present-with-the-past)

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[Emily Dickinson, buttercups, and death](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/emily-dickinson-buttercups-and-death)

[(plus a strange typo)](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/emily-dickinson-buttercups-and-death)

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[Some words about change](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/some-words-about-change)

[and the changes change contains](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/some-words-about-change)

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[What time is it?](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/what-time-is-it)

[(it’s pantoum time)](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/what-time-is-it)

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[Upon this rock](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/upon-this-rock)

[“the rock is here, is extremely visible and extremely, oh, eloquent”](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/upon-this-rock)

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### Poems as Teachers: Conflict and the Human Condition

[Yehuda Amichai’s “The Place Where We Are Right” and Kai Cheng Thom's "trauma is not sacred"](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/yehuda-amichais-the-place-where-we)

[Poems as Teachers, Episodes 06 & 07](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/yehuda-amichais-the-place-where-we)

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[Jericho Brown's "Hebrews 13"](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/jericho-browns-hebrews-13)

[Poems as Teachers, Episode 05](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/jericho-browns-hebrews-13)

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[Mosab Abu Toha's "Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa"](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/mosab-abu-tohas-ibrahim-abu-lughod)

[Poems as Teachers, Episode 04](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/mosab-abu-tohas-ibrahim-abu-lughod)

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[Constantine P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians"](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/constantine-p-cavafys-waiting-for)

[Poems as Teachers, Episode 03](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/constantine-p-cavafys-waiting-for)

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[Joy Harjo's "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings"](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/joy-harjos-conflict-resolution-for)

[Poems as Teachers, Episode 02](https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/joy-harjos-conflict-resolution-for)

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