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	<title>End the Silence Campaign &#187; Poetry and Discussion</title>
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		<title>SAAM Feature 24: Candace</title>
		<link>http://www.endthesilencecampaign.org/2010/04/saam-feature-24-candace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Awareness Month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Child Within
 
 
 
 
 
 
“I don’t love you anymore.”
she said to me one night.
That’s how it all began,
the phrase that sent
my ten-year old life
into a downward spiral.
Exiled from our home
one cold December twenty-sixth
my father, brother and I
sought residential refuge
in a rat and roach infested apartment
on the rough side of town.
The seductive dance
of my father’s cigarette smoke
sentenced our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAAM Feature 16: Lin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Original Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Awareness Month]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sidewalk Poem
by: Lin
_

Note from the Author: I wanted to share something I  wrote when I returned to the street where I was abducted when I was 12.   I was abducted there,  raped and beat up in a car someplace I could not  see.  The man who took me did the same to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAAM Feature 14: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.endthesilencecampaign.org/2010/04/saam-feature-14-laura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Awareness Month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whistler’s Mother at the Farmer’s Daughter
by: Laura Tattoo
Lincoln City, Oregon 3/31/09 
 
Always pulling in just before 10,
always on the edge, always phoning
and confirming, yes, we’re on the way,
wait for us, please, we’re just around the
bend between right now and then, we’re
driving fast as wind gusts pummeling glass
and we’re hungry and tired and pressed to
 the max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucille Clifton (47)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Discussion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last hour is here!!! I am going to near the end this crazy Blog-a-thon with a poem by the lovely Lucille Clifton. This poem is absolutely and utterly amazing.
shapeshifter poems
1
the legend is whispered
in the women’s tent
how the moon when she rises
full
follows some men into themselves
and changes them there
the season is short
but dreadful__shapeshifters
they wear strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices (46)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Discussion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I said, I could analyze Terrance Hayes&#8217; poem &#8220;A Girl in the Woods,&#8221; for hours, but I just want to touch on the very first line. It begins, &#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t she have wanted to be there?&#8221;
Exactly. None of us can predict the future. Everyone of us has found ourselves in situations that we know [...]]]></description>
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