The Resilient Creative

The Resilient Creative

On grabbing the mic & week 45 of 52

what if you have nothing to say?

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Jen Knox
Mar 22, 2025
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I want the young woman in the third row of my class to share her opinions. She’s brilliant and curious, but if she isn’t asked, she doesn’t speak.

Jen Knox reads at Busboys and Poets, DC, Photo by Octavio Quintanilla

This girl reminds me of myself when I was her age.

A poet once told me I should never pass up the opportunity to speak into a microphone. Th…

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