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Poet Jane Hirshfield: Today, When I Could Do Nothing

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Creating a poem in the midst of an exploding pandemic, the beauty of words in a world spinning out of control, can be a powerful form of self-care.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield knows this well. At midnight, March 16, 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area six-county shelter-in-place protocols went into effect.

On the morning of March 17th, Hirshfield woke to what she describes as a changed worldscape. “Especially the sound-scape,” she says. “There were no cars, no construction—only this sudden, extraordinary, profound silence, holding a few birdsongs.

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