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    Strengthening Community, One Love Letter at a Time 

    March 14, 2023

    Step aside, Paris: New Bedford, Massachusetts is the new city of love. Residents created a city-wide letter-writing campaign that inspired an internationally successful documentary.

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  • Close up of a tattooed hand signing the inside page of "How we Became Human" by Joy Harjo.

    Poetry in Rural Oklahoma

    June 7, 2019

    Before I arrived in Locust Grove, Oklahoma, I knew this small town of less than 1,500 was rich in one particular thing: creativity. I was visiting to experience the final...

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  • Branches and sticks piled together in a deliberate fashion, under palm trees and blue sky.

    Storytelling in Puerto Rico

    February 26, 2019

    Universidad Ana G. Méndez hosted an NEA Big Read featuring Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of the Butterflies. Through conversations and events with the author, the community of Gurabo,...

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