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Poet Jeanie Thompson, Executive Director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the life of Helen Keller. \u00a0Thompson studied Keller’s life for a decade and then wrote the book, “The Myth of Water, Poems from the Life of Helen Keller.” \u00a0Today the poet shares stories of Keller’s activism that…<\/p>\n

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