There are things poetry can do and things it can’t. And while my aim is to ease suffering, sometimes the work is to be with it.
Finding the words to console someone ill or grieving is an intensely complicated process. What do you say to someone in a waiting room fraught with anxiety? Over at Lit Hub, Ronna Bloom explores her interesting initiative to offer poetry to people in the hospital.
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