Things I Wrote Down

Things I Wrote Down

Poetry contest closes soon - share your work!

You still have time (but not much) to enter the TIWD poetry contest

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Andrew Kooman
May 29, 2025
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Poetry tells the truth and shares emotion in ways other media cannot.

Great writers, leaders, and thinkers obsess over what poetry is. “Poetry cleanses.” It “can communicate before it is understood.” The poet, before anything else, is someone “passionately in love with language.”1

If you feel any of that, then you’re at the right place, and I want to invi…

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