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    <em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: 9 Poems for This Fraught Moment

    Writers and editors from around our newsroom pick ones worth revisiting.
    by Caroline Mimbs Nyce Aug 07, 2020 4 minutes

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    Poems hold power. As my colleague Hannah Giorgis put it: “Whether by conveying the scale of national grief during a pandemic, or exposing the relentlessness of racism, poetry has already created new ways of experiencing, and surviving, life’s darkest chapters.”

    I asked writers and editors from around our newsroom to choose a poem worth revisiting in this fraught moment. Consider . Or just let their selections fall over you, stanza by stanza, offering

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