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…udices about its relevance and depth. And this is odd because it often goes deeper than other prose. Unless you pick up a poetry book, though, or seek poems online, you’ll never know what it offers.

The Value of Poetry Now:Here’s Why Poems Are Worthwhile
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✨ Bridget Webber

Deborah Barchi
1 min readSep 22, 2020

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This is a wonderful essay, Bridget, and much needed. In these ultra- stressful times we all need to sink ourselves gratefully into the cerulean pools of poetry.

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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