Yale Professor Meghan O’Rourke Uses Poetry to Navigate the Invisible Kingdom

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New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Kingdom Meghan O’Rourke sits down with Zibby Owens to talk about her new, slim, poetry anthology The Story of the Body , a collection of 82 poems about illness, pain, and recovery. Meghan talks about her own experience of falling ill in her early twenties and navigating the onset of symptoms that eventually led to a diagnosis a decade later. She also discusses the process of compiling the anthology with her students at Yale and the magic and power of poetry as a way to make sense of the world. Learn more about Meghan O’Rourke here and follow her on Instagram @meghanor . The Story of the Body can be purchased here . ********* A story for the…