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Call and Responsibility: Critical Questions for Youth Spoken Word Poetry

Susan Weinstein and Anna West
Harvard Educational Review June 2012, 82 (2) 282-302; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.82.2.c35775k021728538
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