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"I think of literary writing as a means of retreiving a human knowledge irretreivable by other means. Composing poems and writing stories is a meditative spiritual act of resistance that requires the capacity to sustain contemplation, to be attentive to all that is about us, and to hold within us an awareness that we are here in our living moment, between two unknown realms, before our births, and after our deaths...."--Carolyn Forche, Blaney Lecture, October 2013
