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Laura Apol reads "The Gift of Yes" from her book, Nothing but the Blood (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018)

Laura Apol reads "What Keeps" by C.D. Wright (from the book Tremble; NY: Ecco Press, 1997), April 12, 2021.

Laura Apol reads "End of April" by Phillis Levin (from the book The Afterimage; Providence, RI: Copper Beach Press, 1996), April 6, 2021.

Laura Apol reads "Respite" by Jane Hirshfield (from the book The Lives of the Heart; NY: Harper Collins, 1997), April 5, 2021.

Laura Apol reads "poem on my fortieth birthday to my mother who died young" by Lucille Clifton (from Good Woman, Rochester, NY: Boa Editions, 1987), April 4, 2021.

Laura Apol reads "God Says Yes" by Kaylin Haught, from the book The Palm of Your Hand, ed. Steven Kowit, Gardiner ME: Tilbury House Publishers, 1995), April 3, 2021.

Laura Apol reads "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon (from the book Otherwise, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 1997), April 2, 2020.

Laura Apol reads her poem, "Light, Water, Bones" (from the book Nothing but the Blood, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2018), April 1, 2020.

Filmed in the MSU Union Ballroom on March 27 2017. Sharper Focus/Wider Lens “Transforming the World: The Power of Imagination” featured Michigan State University faculty: Jeff Wray, MFA, Department of English; Ann Folino White, Ph.D., Department of Theatre; Vaughn W.M. Watson, Ed.D., Department of Teacher Education; Laura Apol, Ph.D., Department of Teacher Education; Robert Montgomery, Ph.D., Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; and facilitator Cynthia Jackson-Elmore, Dean of the Honors College..

Survivors Tribune at the Rwandan High Commission in London: A Seminar on reconciling with the aftermath of Genocide through literature and poetry

* Cutline for featured photo above: Laura Apol; Junior Sabena Mutabazi (Former FHPU Secretary and Team Rwanda UK Captain and now a member of Ishami advisory board); Jo Ingabire Moys (Co-founder of Survivors Tribune and Ishami Foundation); Mutesi Souvenir (Founder of London based Rwanda Sisterhood Association); Isabelle; Eric Muragwe Eugene (Founder, Football for Hope, Peace and Unity; co-founder, Survivors Tribune; co-founder Ishami Foundation).