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Podcast: Speak Up Talk Radio Network
Episode: Leslie Ferguson Firebird Winner Author Interview
Description: I started writing poetry in college as a way to deal with troubling emotions and traumatic memories from my childhood. In graduate school, I was more courageous, and I wrote scenes from memory, trying to recapture the mood of much of my life with a mentally ill parent. During the day, I taught high schoolers...