"I love what the poet Marvin Bell has suggested about writing-Read something, then write something. Read something else, then write something else. It's all connected, it's always been connected. Let one activity inform the other. Streams of language exchanging their powers."
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Naomi Shihab Nye "Slim Thoughts" in Everything Comes Next (2022)
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Marvin Bell
Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 - December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.
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