Virginity

• Impact Podcast with John Shegerian has announced its roster of guests for March, featuring a who’s who of circularity, ESG, sustainability and corporate responsibility all-stars from many of the world’s leading brands.
• The Webby Award honored show is hosted by John Shegerian, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of ERI , the nation’s leading fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company.
• Impact Podcast guests are invited to share with listeners first-hand accounts of how they are able to help make the world a better place on a daily basis.
• “Our Impact Podcast roster of experts features leaders who work every day to help make our world a better place,” said Shegerian.

• Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”) today announced that it has opened a new system integration facility in Southern California for the Company’s Delta Class spaceships.
• “The team has hit the ground running – with important testing already underway, supporting our ability to execute key Delta production milestones.
• The test data we’re gathering at this important stage of development will further refine testing and streamline manufacturing and validation over the course of the Delta program.”
  The Iron Bird is just one ground testing method used in the development of the Delta spaceship.
• Final assembly of the Delta ships will take place at Virgin Galactic’s new Delta facility in Phoenix, Arizona.

• The Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ABV-1519 proposed the clinical investigation of BLEX 404 as a Combination Therapy Drug with Chemotherapy.
• We believe that this collaboration leverages the respective strengths of both companies to accelerate the availability of this vital treatment to patients worldwide.
• This licensing agreement exemplifies ABVC and OncoX's shared dedication to advancing medical science and improving patient care.
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• Poetry by Wordsworth, Yeats and the only woman poet on our school curriculum, Emily Dickinson, became my sustenance.
• In my teens, I was deeply affected by the plight of Ann Lovett.
• My most recent collection, Conditional Perfect (2019), offers a broader emotional range, including anger about many forms of oppression.
• I recognise that poetry can indeed be “the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness”, as the author Alice Walker once stated.

Poetry for social change

• In a world teeming with injustice, it is more urgent than ever to read (and write) poetry that engages with social realities and inequities.
• Poetry, as Audre Lorde memorably stated, “is a vital necessity of our existence.
• In our social media-driven era, where it often feels as if nuance is in jeopardy, it is timely to think about how poetry can embrace the political while not succumbing to the lure of rhetoric.
• During the Arab Spring in 2010, Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi’s poem The Will to Life captured the emotions of Tunisian protesters in their struggle for democracy and change.

Writing political poetry

• What are the skills writers need to enable them to speak out, while avoiding the didactic and over-simplistic meaning?
• These are some of the questions my colleague, poet Eoin Devereux, and I are discussing today with special guest poet and renowned activist Sarah Clancy, in a unique online event for this year’s Poetry Day Ireland.
• To quote American poet Joy Harjo:
  Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too.

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Emily Cullen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.