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“I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That’s an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there’s a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it’s not what we know, it’s what we can risk discovering.” ―Yusef Komunyakaa

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See Komunyakaa speak on Prayer & Meditation at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/16Z60Af

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