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Copper crab, Moche culture, Peru, 6th-7th century

from The MET

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Ink stone in the form of a turtle, China, 6th-7th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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@ilinit a little dude

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From Invisible Dreams by Toi Derricotte

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mary oliver, upstream

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“My alone feels so good. I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” - Warsan Shire

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Element by Noma Osula

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Hausa-Fulani bride, Nigeria, by Lakin Ogunbanwo

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Hands

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"Poetry’s work is to make people real to us through the agency of the voice. ‘Poetry is the human voice,’ I tell them, ‘and we are of interest to one another. Are we not?’ When people are real to you, you can’t fly a plane into the office building where they work, you can’t bulldoze the refugee camp where they live, you can’t cluster-bomb their homes and streets. We only do those things when we understand people as part of a category: infidel, insurgent, enemy. Meanwhile, poetry does what it does, inscribing individual presence, making a system of words and sounds to mark the place where one human being stood, bound in time, reporting on what it is to be one."

— Mark Doty, “Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters Now"