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Activism, Original Poem, Poetry Friday 12/8/22 Activism, Original Poem, Poetry Friday 12/8/22

Poetry Friday: Food and Social Justice

One of my favorite projects of 2022 was writing a series of poems for Nature Culture's Writing the Land Series. This organization pairs poets with local-to-them land trusts, to highlight our deep and abiding relationship with the soil, the forests, the farms.

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