In this episode of Writer Answers, we talk to Celeste Hopkins and Kerry Crotty about Place-based Learning!
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Transcript of this episode’s poem:

The Cold Snap by Courtney Shuman
The sterile surroundings come through in her voice.
The words, impossible to understand as I watch you.
Baby A and Baby B she says.
Not knowing that you are named and loved.

She must not see you so full of life, like the renewal of spring.
As you squirm in black and white
Like a bloom on a tree
Promising bright flowers for tomorrow.

As she moves the magic wand that gives us a glimpse
We see you, next to each other.
Together from the start.
One beginning that formed two hearts.

How could this promise of life be false?
Like a brief cold snap
That brings the return of a cruel and punishing winter
While ice settles on the blooms. 

We wait. We hope. We pray.
And then, the thaw begins
As you two arrive 
and the world is again bathed in sunlight.

Those lingering words are gone, 
As the doctor beams at you both.
But the words are never forgotten.
Frozen in the memory of two parents mangled from the cold.



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Place-based Learning With Celeste Hopkins And Kerry Crotty

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