Crash Course: Wordless in Gaza: When poetry can go where journalism can't

Shelley called poets the "unacknowledged legislators of the world." 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Edgar Hoover Yes, my mother was a Communist, to borrow a phrase that today, in 2023, you can buy through Etsy emblazoned on a water bottle, a baseball cap or an iPad case. She never held an official position within the Party leadership — which you may not be surprised to learn was almost entirely male — but it’s fair to say she was being groomed for one, more because of her improbable pedigree and her photogenic qualities than because of any ideological devotion or organizational ability. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnRwn-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHo3ZzFkNm5scy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXBwZWx1OWN5MWYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZV__hGRlap2_tlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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