"My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…"
— Warsan Shire

January 1, 1970

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On envisioning her poems in ““To Be Vulnerable and Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire” in The Well & Often Reader (November 2012)