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Why do politicians love to defund the arts?

That’s DEFUND, not defend. Why do their actions so often suggest that arts, culture, education, parks and youth programming have no future, when if we will have a local future, these will be the places it is found? Here we go again. In my home province of Nova Scotia, where just under a million citizens live, the ruling provincial conservatives have racked up more than … Continue reading Why do politicians love to defund the arts?

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“I only wish they would take more poets into space”: Where poetry matters

If you are neither a poet nor think of yourself as a reader of poetry, why should poetry matter to you? First, perhaps, because it is everywhere—in story, in song, in odd chance assemblages or strange coincidences. This too may surprise you: not every poem is made of words. This is because, while poetry, like prayer, can be a medium of complacency or banality (think … Continue reading “I only wish they would take more poets into space”: Where poetry matters

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