You can experience a poem a hundred times — you can read it to yourself in the quiet of your room, or aloud to your dog on the back porch, or teach it to your students, or even memorize it, with each encounter telling you something different. But hearing a poem read by its author in person often changes everything.
Annika Warrick
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Community shows up for CAHRP benefit concert featuring Nick Shoulders and Emily Fenton
There’s something about Easter and resurrection that brings even nonreligious people together. Last Sunday’s sold-out show, kicking off Arkansas native Nick Shoulders “Better Western” tour with his band, nicknamed the Okay Crawdad, was no exception. Everyone in the community seemed to be out, and whether it was just the allure of good old-fashioned Arkansas folk music, or to celebrate the lifesaving work of the Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project, it was the place to be.