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Crafting Surprising Images within Medical Intervention Poetry
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A creative prompt inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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The struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
- Glossary TermsA love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. The form originated in medieval France. See John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” and Louise Bogan’s “Leave-Taking.” Browse more aubade poems.
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