imprisonment
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On asymmetry and ‘The Hatred of Poetry.’
Like you, the people in jail have stories to tell.
45, agitation for change, asymmetry, asymmetry of attention, attention, attention economy, Ben Lerner, By Any Measure, county jail, criminal justice, dipole moment, Donald Trump, grammar, hate crime, Hatred of Poetry, idiosynchratic grammar, imprisonment, In Between Poems, incarceration, Jack Gilbert, jail poetry, Jana Prikryl, lockdown, lyric, lyric poems, lyrical poetry, mass incarceration, MFA, Orlando shooting, Philip Warren Anderson, physics, physics of poetry, physics of symmetry, plea for attention, poet, poetry, prison poetry, reading poetry in jail, rehab, rehabilitation, school to prison pipeline, symmetry, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, terrorism, The After Party, The Hatred of Poetry, the internet, the power of words, Thirty Thousand Islands, waning attention spans, why read poetry, why water flows, why write poetry, writing poetry in jail, [jumpsuits]
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On wasted ingenuity.
Everyone strives, but we force some to waste their efforts reinventing the wheel – or the water heater, or the piano, or…
Albany, Attica, automation, Blood in the Water, capitalism, childhood trauma, criminal justice, Deirdre N McCloskey, Demetrius Cunningham, economics, Growth Not Forced Equality Saves the Poor, Heather Anne Thompson, imprisonment, injustice, jail, Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano, Lori Milks, New Yorker, one sheet per day, poverty, prison, prison writing, punishment, punitive justice
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