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This week, I’d like you to start out by reading this story from the New Yorker about the poet Steve Roggenbuck.
Then be sure to watch the video titled make something beautiful before you are dead.
Is this a poem? Is this a variation on the old forms of literature, a completely new form of literature, or something that sits outside the literary tradition? Is this inspiring, annoying, both, or something else entirely?