Maggie Queeney reflects on a decade building the Poetry Foundation’s adult education programs

When Maggie Queeney began teaching a routine poetry workshop at a Chicago senior center, she had no idea one of her selected poems would facilitate a participant’s long-awaited catharsis. Partway through the workshop, a man nearing the end of his life found in the intricate verses of a villanelle a space to reckon with what […]

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