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Grand Marronage

Shared experience: Poet Irène Mathieu explores identity and liberation in Grand Marronage
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Shared experience: Poet Irène Mathieu explores identity and liberation in Grand Marronage

Local poet and pediatrician Irène Mathieu has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember. Before she learned to write, she would observe her mother and narrate everything she did. “She found it super annoying,” Mathieu says with a laugh. Mathieu, who lived in Charlottesville for parts of her childhood, returned last July […]

writerlorne | June 26, 2019

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Shared experience: Poet Irène Mathieu explores identity and liberation in Grand Marronage

Local poet and pediatrician Irène Mathieu has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember. Before she learned to write, she would observe her mother and narrate everything she did. “She found it super annoying,” Mathieu says with a laugh. Mathieu, who lived in Charlottesville for parts of her childhood, returned last July […]

writerlorne | June 26, 2019

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