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Poetry As a Way To ‘Build Empathy’

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12.1.23 – For New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, poetry is a way to “build empathy.” In conversation with Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus, Camp talks about her new book and a project that brings “epic poetry” to communities across the state. She also reads from her new book, “Worn Smooth Between Devourings” and…

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Citizens’ Defense

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By all official accounts, nearly a decade of federal oversight for the Albuquerque Police Department is lumbering to an end. Whether the court-enforced consent decree between the U.S. Justice Department and the City of Albuquerque has been successful is a question with which I spend considerable time — thinking, talking with friends and sources, thinking…

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