“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

War. Climate crisis. Another Trump administration. Rather than commiserate, let’s find consolation in poetic expression. We’ll spend this President’s Day writing, prompted by poems and other forms from literary luminaries like Toni Morrison, Dorianne Laux, Nikki Giovani, and Ellen Bass.

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