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April 29, 2024: Oliver da la Paz, Pope Francis, and Adam Gardner
Today we continue to celebrate national poetry month with Oliver de la Paz. He is the poet laureate of Worcester and an associate professor at The College of the Holy Cross. His latest collection of poetry “The Diaspora Sonnets,” is winner of the New England Book Award for Poetry. These sonnets illuminate the immigrant experience with meditations on the meaning of home and family bonds. They reflect on the role of memory and nostalgia, and the power that looking forward has when forging a new life in a new land.
From there we’re off to the Venice Biennale. Yesterday Pope Francis visited a…
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