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Poems for What Ails You

An ongoing series that shows how poetry can meet us where it hurts. This first episode grapples with the weight of grief and includes Michael’s reading of Mary Elizabeth Frye’s “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”

Every choice carries a cost.

In“The Price,” by Stuart Henson, the question isn’t whether another path would have been better, but what it means to carry the one you chose, knowing there is no return to who you were before it. This is the second in a series of videos highlighting poems that speak to ailments (psychic, emotional, existential) that plague our everyday lives.

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