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What happened when a poet was sent to the biggest US mall to write for shoppers

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Brian Sonia-Wallace was selected to pen poems at the Mall of America. In a shrine to consumerism, he regularly brought visitors to tears

In March of 2017, I responded to a ridiculous post that a friend shared on Facebook.

“Apply now! Mall of America seeks writer-in-residence to celebrate its 25th birthday!”

This vision

is about writing as connection – poetry as a service industry.

We never stopped believing in faeries…

we were lost boys, both of us

There is no one

I would rather

Related: Big, bold … and broken: is the US shopping mall in a fatal decline?

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