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Welcome to Season 9! On today’s episode of VS, Brittany and Ajanae chat with Chet’la Sebree about love, the origin of words and theory, chronic illness, vulnerability…
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I knew, with absolute certainty, that what I had experienced there was something I would never experience again.
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He saw poetry as an ongoing shamanic journey, a ritual system unfolding across continents and time.
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Facing the blackboard,
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