Snow Poems Project

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Poetry Commission with Layli Long Soldier | Holt/Smithson Foundation We are very happy to announce our first poetry commission, with Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota Nation). She was invited by Holt/Smithson Foundation to create a poem about the weather, and has written a companion series, Night Poems and Day Poems. The poems reflect on the reciprocal relationship t...

“Poetry necessitates that we slow down, deepen our attention, practice care with language and with each other; poetry is an essential language…and it affirms our shared humanity.” Read our interview with Arthur Sze, the newly appointed U.S. poet laureate: at.pw.org/PoetLaureateSze

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