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1398: A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem by Rachel Dillon

Category: Arts
Duration: 00:05:43
Publish Date: 2025-11-18 09:00:00
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Today’s poem is A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem by Rachel Dillon.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “To ask, “What can a poem do to help?” is to gesture toward a bigger question: “What can art do?” What can literature, or music, or film, or performance, or visual art do for us, particularly when we are struggling, individually and collectively? I think art can articulate the beauty and horrors of being alive. I think it can make people feel seen and understood, and therefore less alone. I think it can bear witness to what our planet is enduring.”


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