Posted on Jul 28, 2022
'Love, Me' is a community poem crowdsourced from hundreds of letters
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There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter.
So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their choosing.
Many chose to write to loved ones, both living and dead. Some wrote to lawmakers. Others wrote in existential fashion, including to the world.
There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter.
So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their choosing.
Many chose to write to loved ones, both living and dead. Some wrote to lawmakers. Others wrote in existential fashion, including to the world.
'Love, Me' is a community poem crowdsourced from hundreds of letters
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..."There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter.
So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their choosing.
Many chose to write to loved ones, both living and dead. Some wrote to lawmakers. Others wrote in existential fashion, including to the world.
Their letters talked of long and dear friendships, of love and loss and of difficult relationships.
We received more than 600 submissions, and NPR's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander turned some of them into this community, crowd-sourced poem.
"This was the most challenging poem to date, hands down," Alexander tells Morning Edition. "Over 600 submissions, and everyone was writing to a different person ... a few people even wrote to us!"...
..."There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter.
So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their choosing.
Many chose to write to loved ones, both living and dead. Some wrote to lawmakers. Others wrote in existential fashion, including to the world.
Their letters talked of long and dear friendships, of love and loss and of difficult relationships.
We received more than 600 submissions, and NPR's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander turned some of them into this community, crowd-sourced poem.
"This was the most challenging poem to date, hands down," Alexander tells Morning Edition. "Over 600 submissions, and everyone was writing to a different person ... a few people even wrote to us!"...
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