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Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark

'Laugh right in its face' – a poet reflects on her craft's defiant role in the middle of a war

Poetry matters: City workers in Kiev, Ukraine, protect a monument to Italian poet Dante Alighieri from shelling by the Russians. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

During the two years of intermittent lockdown, writers had plenty of time to write, a state of affairs that becomes clearer and clearer as books generated by, and written during, the pandemic begin to appear.

Not only to write, but to write to, with or for another alleviates loneliness. More online writing groups and workshops than I can begin to count have sprouted; some already existed, but now they’re ubiquitous.

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