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Nieman Notes
The Poet’s Voice Surfaces in a Time of War
‘All of us have notebooks and brains full of narrative poetry.’

By Eliza Griswold

You May Lie: that’s the difference between poetry and reportage. Although what matters is telling the truth. In poetry, you may also return to a moment once it has passed and wander back into that fear, doubt, regret to try to make meaningful sense of what happened, or didn’t. All of us have notebooks and brains full of narrative poetry. Here are a few from mine.



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