"I also read poetry — from Pablo Neruda to Warsan Shire — fairly regularly, and it keeps my sense of what words can do wide open and my sense of beauty awake."
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Rebecca Solnit interview (2018)
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Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire FRSL (August 1, 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya.
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