We’re All Poets: Carnegie Foundation December Newsletter

This is just a preview of what’s included in our December newsletter, featuring an opening letter from our president, Timothy Knowles. Click below to explore all the updates!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Every year, I read poetry in December. It started as a way to briefly untether from the tsunami of non-fiction and prose that rules the day. Over time, it became a habit.  
 
In the first stanza of one of Emily Dickinson’s 1,800 untitled poems, she describes the difference between poetry and prose this way

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