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Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time Author|Blair Clinton part critical investigation—makes it anWhat is the duty of writers when the shared life of the nation turns toward darkness? In the first days of the new presidency of January 2017, twelve writers met together in Portland, Oregon to share our sense of mute, useless outrage, and ask: What should we be doing, as the nation turns toward lying, racism, and hatred? During an unusually stormy Portland winter, we came to see that reading and writing were a virtual commons, a public space where