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Arresting Poetry
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Edward Doyle-Gillespie always found writing stories cathartic, a way to process whatever was going on in his life. But as a police officer in Baltimore, witnessing people in the most desperate conditions, he increasingly turned to poetry as a vehicle for understanding and expressing his experiences on the job.“There are these moments in policing, distilled moments of a word, an image, a smell, a concept, that to me bespeaks of a kind of encapsulated poem right there.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Mar 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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