Three U.S. Secret Service officials were placed on administrative leave Tuesday, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office.

The three were operating in non-law-enforcement capacities and were being investigated for potential misconduct, the agency’s public information office reported. However, the cause for the action remained unclear as the Office of Professional Responsibility was beginning its review.

The Secret Service has been under scrutiny as President Donald Trump has been the subject of at least three assassination plots in the past two years. In April, police said an armed man breached security at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which Trump was attending.

Country singer Blake Shelton, who worked with Parton on the American television series The Voice wrote: “I can say with absolute certainty that we are all feeling the same heart brokenness today.”

“I want everyone to know that she was the EXACT person that you think she is,” he added. “It was like being with the funnest, most loving, most caring and closest member of your family.”

On social media, American singer and actress Dionne Warwick said her “heart is heavy”.

“I will certainly miss her laughter, jokes and her being. Rest well and in total peace my friend,” she wrote.

Former wife of Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley, recalled: “After Elvis and I left the courthouse following our divorce, he sang [I Will Always Love You] to me as we walked down the steps together.”

“Her music touched all of us, but it was Dolly’s warmth, humour and enormous heart that made her truly one of a kind,” Presley added.

Parton, who was known for her roles in the movies 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias, as well as the show Hannah Montana, was remembered fondly by many actors.

Seth MacFarlane said that when working with Parton, who guest-starred on his show The Orville, “her kindness, generosity, and authenticity were evident from moment one”.

“I’m devastated. Truly”, actress Keke Palmer said alongside a photo of her and Parton. The pair starred in the 2012 musical Joyful Noise.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis said Parton was a hero who “is a great example for us all”.

Fashion designer Donatella Versace said: “The world has lost one of the kindest and most generous of souls, the greatest of story tellers and a true legend of music.”

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, prompting a wave of tributes

Dolly Parton passed away following a “brief battle with cancer”, her representatives have confirmed.

In a statement issued to PEOPLE magazine on Tuesday (August 25), the country legend’s team confirmed that the star died aged 80 after a cancer diagnosis. The specific type of cancer has not been disclosed.

“Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched,” the statement read.

“Her unmatched generosity reached the lives of countless people whom she would never meet, yet she was always there to offer a helping hand. Whether it be the hundreds of millions of books donated through her invaluable Imagination Library or funding research that helped create a lifesaving vaccine used around the world, Dolly’s unconditional love for all people was the guiding force for her lasting impact.”

The statement concluded: “After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones.”

Parton died on Tuesday, with her nephew Bryan Seaver breaking the devastating news to the world via a heartfelt social media post the same day.

According to PEOPLE, Parton was admitted to a Nashville-area hospital on Friday (August 21), where she passed away four days later.

We bought a new house. When we moved in, the sellers had left a broken washing machine full of clothes, a broken fridge-freezer, dirty dishes and unwanted furniture. We had to pay to have it cleared. Can we claim the money back from the seller?

Name and address supplied.

Potentially, yes – and your position could be quite strong.

When you buy a property, the seller will generally be required to give you vacant possession on completion.

That means you should be able to move into the property and enjoy it without being confronted by the seller’s belongings, furniture or rubbish, unless you agreed that particular items could remain.

From what you describe, you did not agree to take these items. A broken washing machine containing the seller’s clothes, a broken fridge-freezer, dirty dishes and unwanted furniture are not things you should ordinarily be expected to deal with after completion.

If the seller was contractually obliged to give vacant possession, leaving these items could amount to a breach of contract. If you then had to pay a reasonable amount to have them removed and disposed of, you can seek to recover that cost from the seller as a loss resulting from the breach.

There is one important caveat: check the contract and the TA10 Fittings and Contents Form you signed during the buying process to make sure none of the items were agreed to be left at the property.

I would write to the seller, explain that the property was not handed over in the agreed condition, provide photographs and the clearance invoice, and ask them to reimburse the reasonable cost of removal.

Do not overstate your claim by demanding compensation for the inconvenience. Your strongest claim is for the actual, reasonable cost you incurred in clearing up.

My daughter lives on a street where finding a parking space is difficult. Her neighbour recently had the kerb outside her house dropped, even though she can’t park in her front garden because it has a wall. The neighbour says because the kerb is now dropped – lowered to enable access to off-road parking – no one else is allowed to park outside her house.

When my daughter did park there due to a lack of spaces, an egg was thrown at her car. Is the neighbour right about the kerb?

S.N., Northampton.

The neighbour is wrong. A dropped kerb confers no ownership of the road, and creates no private parking space.

The highway outside a house remains public and, unless there are specific restrictions in place, such as yellow lines, a residents’ bay or similar, anyone may generally park there. Having a kerb lowered does not reserve that stretch of Tarmac for the homeowner and the neighbour cannot simply declare it hers.

The fact that she can’t even use her front garden for parking, because a wall still blocks it, rather underlines the point.

There is, however, one genuine note of caution and this is where the distinction matters. Parking on the road near the property is fine, but parking directly across the dropped section is another matter.

Under the Traffic Management Act 2004, parking across a dropped footway is a civil parking contravention that councils can enforce with a penalty notice.

Be aware, too, that some councils will enforce this even where the resident has no usable driveway and, occasionally, even if the resident hasn’t complained. So your daughter would be wise to check her council’s stance as it varies from area to area.

What troubles me far more is the egg. Throwing an object at a vehicle could amount to criminal damage if any harm is caused, with repeated targeting potentially crossing into harassment.

My advice: avoid all confrontation. Photograph the dropped kerb, the wall and any signs or road markings, and keep a dated record of every incident.

If it happens again, especially if her car is damaged or she feels threatened, she should report it to the police.

The fast-food chain prepares to reopen its doors in just over a week.

The drive-thru restaurant on Allensway in Thornaby has been closed since the start of August while work takes place on a full renovation of the site.

Now, with the reopening date fast approaching, McDonald’s has shared a video showing the transformation underway inside the Teesside restaurant and reminded customers that they won’t have to wait too much longer.

The final changes are being made at the Allensway site (Image: Teesside McDonald’s)

New ovens are coming to a McDonald’s in Teesside (Image: Teesside McDonald’s)

In a social media post, the company said: “Just a friendly reminder, Thornaby!

“Your local McDonald’s is having a well-earned glow up and will reopen, better than ever, at 11am on 2nd September.”

While McDonald’s has not revealed every detail of the project, footage shared online shows construction work taking place throughout the restaurant as staff prepare to return.

Stockton Council approved plans for the site, including a new drive-thru order display canopy, alterations to the shop front, doors and glazing, as well as new digital display boards and internal signage.

While the final renovations are being completed, McDonald’s says customers can continue to enjoy their favourite menu items at its nearby Teesside Park and Yarm Road sites.

The restaurant, which opened in 2014, is expected to welcome customers back from 11am on Wednesday, September 2, after around a month of refurbishment work.

Gamescom 2026’s Opening Night Live event has revealed not only a current gen remaster for The Witcher 3 but CD Projekt are giving away its expansions for nothing.

It’s 11 years since the release of The Witcher 3 and while it’s one of the best-selling video games of all-time you would assume that its moment had passed, especially as developer CD Projekt has already announced a sequel. It’s not clear when that will be out though, so to get people excited about the series again CD Projekt has done more than just announce new DLC.

Releasing a major expansion for such an old game is unprecedented, although in hindsight it’s a great idea for creating a story bridge between the two titles. However, relatively little was shown of the DLC, called Songs Of The Past, at Gamescom on Tuesday evening, with the focus instead being on the previously unannounced The Witcher 3 Remastered.

It appears to be a major upgrade for the original game, not just in terms of visuals, but with promised changes to the combat, traversal system, horse-riding, skill tree, and much more.

This is excellent news because even at the time of the original release, the game was criticised for its weak combat. Although it’s surprising there’s no mention at all about improving the awkward inventory system, which was the other major complaint.

There may be more to the final release though, as CD Projekt developer Miles Toast appeared on stage to talk about the remaster and he described a revamped ability system, which isn’t specifically mentioned in the trailer.

The best news is that all of this is completely free, if you already own the original game on GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, or Xbox Series X/S. You can even claim it for free on Nintendo Switch 2, if you already own the Switch 1 version. It’ll also be available on Battle.net for the first time.

As if the pot was not sweet enough, on top of that you get the existing expansions Hearts Of Stone and Blood And Wine for free too, either because you already had the base game or when you buy the remastered version separately.

What are the new features in The Witcher 3 Remastered?

A lot has changed for the remaster, although CD Projekt hasn’t gone into detail about any of them. The first 10 changes listed below are the ones most clearly highlighted during the trailer, whereas the others appear in small print for a split second, as they scroll up the screen.

1. Upgraded visuals
2. Enhanced combat
3. Improved traversal and movement
4. New witcher signs FX
5. Revamped mount handling
6. Enhanced monster behaviours
7. Skill tree revamp
8. Transmogrification
9. Expanded photo mode
10. New finishers

• Cross platform mod support
• Immersive meditation
• Refined animations
• New quest tracking
• UI improvements
• Looting rework
• Refreshed motion blur
• New accessibility features
• Updated textures
• Foliage shading rework
• Tutorial modernisation
• HDR improvements
• GTAO [ground-truth ambient occlusion]
• Improved menu navigation
• Ray tracing improvements
• Global lighting rework
• New shading model
• Subsurface scattering
• New tone mapper
• PlayStation 5 Pro support
• Xbox Play Anywhere support
• Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive features
• Nvidia DLSS 4.5
• AMD FSR 4
• Intel XESS 2.0
• Path tracing on PC
• Ray reconstruction on PC
• Ray-traced hair
• Native DX12
• Rendering parallelisation

What is The Witcher 3 Remastered release date?

You really can’t ask for more than that, especially as the remaster is out very soon, on September 29. Considering how often the DLC was leaked it’s remarkable that CD Projekt has kept it secret, especially as it’s been made by an external developer called Yigsoft.

Songs Of The Past is being developed by Fool’s Theory, which is made up of a lot of The Witcher veterans. The same studio is also supposed to be doing The Witcher 1 remake, although nothing has been said or seen of that in a long time.

The original The Witcher game (which, to be honest, wasn’t very good) did get mentioned though, as the new chain weapon you can see in the Songs Of The Past trailer is a nod to that game’s intro. It wasn’t mentioned, but it also seems to be the same weapon Ciri uses in The Witcher 4 teaser trailer, so you can probably see where CD Projekt is going with that.

Not a lot was shown of the new expansion, but it will take advantage of all the improvements from the remastered version. The idea that it segues into The Witcher 4 is still only a theory though, as CD Projekt has never actually said that’s what it’s about.

Geralt seems to be fighting tree monsters though, that look kind of like an evil Groot, and the expansion takes place on the continent of Letten, where the character of Dandelion is from.

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For decades, the answer to “how much sleep does an adult need?” has been simple: eight hours. The idea dates back to the mid-19th century when the notion of eight hours of work, eight for recreation and eight for sleep first took hold.

But growing evidence suggests that eight hours may not be the ideal amount of sleep for everyone, as a new narrative review in Brain Medicine reminds us.

To find out how much people naturally sleep, researchers have studied hunter-gatherer communities whose lifestyles are closer to those of our ancestors and who have little or no access to artificial light. In one early study, researchers found that people in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia slept for between 5.7 and 7.1 hours a night. These short sleep durations can’t be attributed to traffic noise, social media use or too much artificial light at night.

The short nights also seemed to be enough: people did not make up for them with long daytime naps. Without an alarm clock, they tended to wake close to dawn, regardless of the day of the week.

Exactly how long people are found to sleep in pre-industrialised societies varies depending on how sleep is measured, where people live, the season and other environmental factors. But one recent analysis estimated the average to be 6.4 hours.

So, is eight hours too much? These studies make an important assumption that the amount people naturally sleep is the amount they need. That assumes that hunter-gatherers are free from stress, busy schedules and other pressures on sleep. But is that really the case?

We also don’t know whether people in these societies experience the same health problems linked to too little sleep that are seen in modern societies. So their shorter sleep may not be as strong an argument against eight hours as it first appears.

But other evidence has emerged from large studies looking at the relationship between sleep and health in industrialised societies.

If we define optimal sleep as the amount linked to the best health, many large studies suggest the sweet spot may be less than eight hours. One recent study used brain and body scans and molecular measures to look at how sleep relates to the ageing of different organs. It estimated the optimal amount to be between 6.4 and 7.8 hours, depending on the person’s sex and the organ being studied.

Many studies find that both too little and too much sleep are linked to poorer health, including heart disease, stroke, cognitive decline and obesity. But scientists are still debating whether too much sleep causes poor health or is instead an early sign of it. Either way, these findings challenge the idea that everyone needs exactly eight hours and suggest that consistently sleeping for much longer may be worth paying attention to.

However, all these estimates of optimal sleep duration are based on averages, and the average person does not exist. When given enough opportunity to sleep, studies find that young adults sleep longer than healthy older adults. Even people of the same age can need very different amounts of sleep.

Current sleep duration recommendations, from the National Sleep Foundation in the US, reflect these individual differences. It says that adults aged 26 to 64 should get between seven and nine hours of sleep per day, but that sleeping between six and ten hours may be appropriate for some adults. That is a long way from the one-size-fits-all eight-hour rule.

When you sleep matters

But there is more to sleep than the hours we get. An important feature of modern sleep patterns is not that they are shorter than they once were, but that they are delayed relative to the natural light-dark cycle. Most of us do not wake naturally before dawn. Many of us have short sleep during the working week and longer catch-up sleep on work-free days.

Artificial light is recognised as the main driver of this shift. It changes our sleep habits and delays our body clock, which controls the timing of sleep and wakefulness.

Irregular sleep is also common, particularly among shift workers and university students. Irregular sleep is linked to poorer health. But if you lose sleep during the week, catching up on some of it at the weekend appears to be better than not catching up at all – even though it makes your sleep pattern less regular. So regularity matters, but so does the total amount of sleep you get over a week or longer.

The eight-hour rule is clearly too simple. People need different amounts of sleep, and when we sleep matters too. But one simple message remains: get enough sleep when you can, wherever you can, and don’t worry too much about the occasional bad night.

Years before Dolly Parton‘s death at 80, the country songstress had already planned out what song she wanted to be played at her funeral.

Parton – whose nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced that she had died peacefully at her home in Nashville on Tuesday – weighed in on the subject way back in 2014 during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The singer–songwriter began by noting that the logical funeral song for her would be one of her own tunes, I Will Always Love You, which had achieved greater fame after Whitney Houston recorded it for her film The Bodyguard (1992).

Parton previously had a hit on the country charts with her original 1974 version of the song, which she wrote in response to the end of her working relationship with the country singer Porter Wagoner, who died in 2007.

She realized just how powerful her song could be when she attended Houston’s funeral in 2012.

‘I’m sure they’ll be playing I Will Always Love You when I die, just like they did with Whitney Houston,’ Parton said. ‘When they picked her coffin up and started in on that song, I started to cry, and I thought, “Oh my Lord.” That’s when it hit me that she was really gone.’

Parton assumed that her song I Will Always Love You would be played at her funeral, especially after she realized how powerful it could be when she heard Whitney Houston’s cover played at Houston’s funeral in 2012; Houston is pictured in 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada

But as moving as I Will Always Love You could be, Parton imagined a different song for her funeral 12 years before her death.

‘There’s a song called If We Never Meet Again,’ Parton told EW. ‘It’s an old country–gospel church song that talks about if we never meet again this side of heaven, I will meet you on that beautiful shore.’

She was so moved by the thought of the beloved song, which was written by the Southern Gospel songwriter Albert E. Brumley, that she continued to quote its lyrics.

‘Where the charming roses bloom forever and where separations come no more,’ Parton added. 

She went on to reveal that the song figured prominently in her father Robert Parton Sr.’s funeral in 2000.

‘That was my daddy’s favorite,’ she went on to reveal. ‘We did sing it at his funeral, and I would like it to be sung at mine.’

Following the news of Parton’s death, her fans got a small bit of good news when it was confirmed that her Broadway dreams would still come true.

‘As was Dolly’s wish, the Broadway production of Dolly: A True Original Musical will begin previews December 7 at the St. James Theatre in New York City,’ the show’s producers said in a statement.

‘When they picked her coffin up and started in on that song, I started to cry, and I thought, “Oh my Lord.” That’s when it hit me that she was really gone,’ Parton said of hearing the song at Houston’s funeral; pictured in 2019 in Newport, Rhode Island

But Parton’s personal pick for her funeral was a different tune, an ‘old country–gospel church song’ titled If We Never Meet Again. She revealed the song was her father’s favorite and was played at his funeral in 2000; pictured in 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Following the news of Parton’s death, her fans got a small bit of good news when it was confirmed that her Broadway dreams would still come true 

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‘As was Dolly’s wish, the Broadway production of Dolly: A True Original Musical will begin previews December 7 at the St. James Theatre in New York City,’ producers said in a statement 

The hit show will then officially open January 19 on what would’ve been her 81st birthday following a sold-out run in her Nashville hometown last summer.

The country legend wrote the music and book and served as producer of the rags-to-riches show helmed by Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Mandy Moore.

‘Now, this isn’t a story about sparkle and shine on the outside,’ Parton said in a video last month.

‘It’s about where I really come from, what I’ve lived, what I’ve lost, what I’ve loved and how I’ve found my way and told it in my own words and through the music that’s been part of me every step of the journey.’

The national treasure added: ‘Now, the musical has some of my big hits plus a lot of brand new songs that I’ve written just for the show. This really is a dream come true…and I can’t wait to share it with all of you!’

DOLLY will take audiences on a journey through the life of Parton ‘from her barefoot beginnings in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee to performing in platform heels under the bright lights of Hollywood.’

Katie Rose Clarke, Quinn Titcomb and Carrie St. Louis all portrayed the blonde bombshell at various stages of her life at the Belmont University Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, but the Broadway cast has yet to be announced.

However, parents should be aware that DOLLY might not be appropriate for children under age eight.

The hit show will then officially open January 19 on what would’ve been her 81st birthday following a sold-out run in her Nashville hometown last summer

The country legend wrote the music, book and served as producer of the rags-to-riches show helmed by Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Mandy Moore 

Katie Rose Clarke, Quinn Titcomb and Carrie St. Louis (pictured August 8) all portrayed the Backwoods Barbie at various stages of her life at the Belmont University Fisher Center for the Performing Arts – but the Broadway cast has yet to be announced

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It’s worth noting that Parton was only a Tony Award away from elite EGOT status.

The godmother of Miley Cyrus previously earned a Tony Award nomination for composing the music to Broadway production 9 to 5: The Musical which ran in 2009 at Manhattan’s Marquis Theatre.

Parton’s 1984 song With Bells On was also featured in the Broadway musical Candles, Snow & Mistletoe, which ran in 1993 at the Palace Theatre.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winner had previously canceled her six-date residency, Dolly: Live in Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum.

Parton admitted in May that she’s ‘always had problems with my kidney stones’ but for the past three years her immune system and digestive system ‘got all out of whack’ and now need to be ‘rebuilt and strengthened.’

‘The good news is I’m responding really well to meds and treatments and I’m improving every day,’ the Please Please Please singer said.

‘Now, the bad news is, it’s gonna take me a little while before I’m up to stage performance level because some of the meds and treatments make me a little bit “swimmy headed” as my grandma used to say.

‘And of course, I can’t be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels. And you know that I’m going to be wearing them!’

It’s worth noting that Parton was only a Tony Award away from elite EGOT status 

The Light of a Clear Blue Morning singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver broke the sad news via social media where he remarked on how she ‘ opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent’

Parton’s small, private funeral service will be held for immediate family and, in lieu of flowers, the family requested donations to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Parton had admitted she still had ‘some healing to do’ but she has ‘great doctors,’ saying: ‘I’m doing really well and they assure me that everything I have is treatable, so I’m going with that.’

The Light of a Clear Blue Morning singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver broke the sad news via social media where he remarked on how she ‘ opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.’

‘By her example, we believed that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn’t open, and the doors she opened made and changed history,’ her 75-year-old head of security said.

‘Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable.’

Parton’s small, private funeral service will be held for immediate family and, in lieu of flowers, the family requested donations to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

The backwoods Barbie – who still pulls 16.1 million monthly listeners on Spotify – sold over 100 million records and broke 10 Guinness World Records.

Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

For too long, climate communication has relied on the belief that if we stick with the science and communicate the evidence, action will follow. Scientific knowledge gives us the foundations for understanding possible futures, while speculation allows us to explore them. But poetry can bring that speculation to life, giving us a language to express what living through those futures might mean.

The power of poetry lies in making us pay attention to a sound, a place, an object or something changing around us. Researchers have argued that eco-poetry can influence how we experience a place, what we notice and what it might become in the future. They suggest that by “sounding” environmental change, speculative poetry offers us a tangible way to engage with, interpret and navigate the uncertainty of the climate crisis.

However, the literature professor Andrew Gorin has cautioned against making superficial claims that a poem will directly reduce carbon emissions or lead to greener policy. Its influence is much more nuanced, circulating ideas, offering different ways of seeing and contributing to how we respond to the world. There is also evidence for how poetry does this.

Psychology experts in the US and Canada argue that poetry evokes emotion partly through mental simulation. We imagine what the words describe, respond to rhythm and sound, and position ourselves within the poem. In one experiment that involved 27 German-speaking participants, researchers used psychophysiology (the study of how thoughts and emotions link to physical responses in the human body), brain imaging and behavioural responses to show that recited poetry could produce a range of responses from chills to goosebumps.

In my own ongoing doctoral research, school leaders engaged with the process of writing speculative poems, exploring their hopes, worries and uncertainties about climate change. Poetry has enabled them to engage with experiences that are complex, interconnected and difficult to put into words.

Their speculative poems bring knowledge, experience, place, memory, emotion and uncertainty together, enabling school leaders to consider what might be demanded of their leadership as climate change increasingly affects their schools, communities, children and young people.

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So how can we all reap the benefits of climate poetry? To start writing speculative climate poetry, try jumping ten years ahead. Choose something completely ordinary: your commute, your lunch, your garden or a trip to the shops. What might have changed in ten years because of climate change?

Experiment with epic and lyric. Write about the same climate future in two different ways. Epic poetry tells a larger story, often involving journeys, struggles and transformation, while lyric poetry focuses more closely on a particular experience, feeling, relationship, place or moment.

Think about The Odyssey for epic poetry, and write a journey across time and place influenced by unpredictable events, struggle and transformation. Then try lyric poetry. Take inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody! Who are you? and focus closely on a particular experience, relationship, place or moment. What does each form allow you to notice and express differently?

Sound out the future. Walk somewhere familiar and notice what you can hear, smell, see and feel. Use walking, listening and writing to look more deeply at what’s happening around us. Now imagine the same place ten years from now. What might stay the same, disappear or change?

Start with an ordinary object: an umbrella, a tree or a bottle of water. Imagine its place in a climate-changed future.

Explore the emotional power of poetry. Let your voice lead the writing. Talk aloud about a climate-changed future, a place you care about, or something you fear losing. Record yourself and listen back. Notice the words and phrases that make you pause, feel uncomfortable or give you hope, then use them to build your poem.

Often, writing a poem can seem intimidating if you’re aiming for perfection. Instead, simply begin with what you notice. Bring together the ideas, feelings and possibilities that matter to you and let them become a poetic speculation about how to create a better future together.