Dipika Mukherjee reports on the first-ever Migrant Workers Poetry Competition in Singapore, at which construction-site laborers read their poems in November. Rarely is poetry, with its messy…
Migrant Worker Poetry
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January 14, 2015 Dipika Mukherjee
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