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By The FulcrumApr 18, 2022
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Iconic singer/songwriter Steve Nicks keeps a journal that she turns to in times of crisis.

The legendary voice of Fleetwood Mac recently posted a poem to Vladimir Putin and held nothing back as she expressed her anger at the man responsible for the atrocities happening in Ukraine.

Nicks began:

“Are you lonely, Mr. Putin? Is that why you sit at your long, long marble table, alone in the night and through the day and talk to ghosts? Because you really have no friends — everyone is afraid of you; afraid to even offer up good advice, because great emperors don’t listen to anyone but ghosts. Your ghosts must be shaking their heads concerning the killing of children and young people and destroying the houses of young families just for support. Your ghosts disapprove.”

The full text of the poem appears below.

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When Northwestern theater and creative writing junior Lux Vargas wrote and brought to life La Ventanita, she created a space of rest and home for those who live in the grief of not belonging anywhere, yet still yearn for a sense of belonging together. By closing night, Vargas had mothers and daughters, once splintered by politics, in each other's arms. In a small, sold-out theater in Evanston, the story on stage became a mirror: centering on mothers who fled the country and daughters who left again for college.

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