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The Nina Riggs Poetry Award

On March 25, 2019 By AfterwordLeave a comment

  Memorials are a mixed blessing, obviously - the object of the dedication is always missing. The memorial only exists because we feel bereft, we need to fill a void. But memorializing is also a way of leveraging grief to create new things in the space bereavement leaves behind, which is why I’m really excited …

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