The Poet and the Echo

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Short story series in which writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories.

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The Poet and the Echo: The Idler

The Idler

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Hannah Lavery’s meditative story inspired by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson.

Hannah Lavery’s meditative story inspired by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s poem on what being idle might actually teach us.

Writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories. 

The Idler

Poet, essayist and activist, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson was a mixed-race American born in Louisiana a decade after the Civil War. 

Hannah Lavery takes inspiration from her poem about an idle man to create a moving and timely meditation on the value of taking life at a slower pace. 

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Writer ….. Hannah Lavery
Reader ….. Anneika Rose
Producer …..  Kirsty Williams

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