As part of the 2021 Dear Poet project, students around the country and the world wrote letters to Janice Lobo Sapigao in response to a video of her reading her poem “There Will Be No Funeral” aloud. Janice Lobo Sapigao wrote letters back to seven of these students; their letters and her replies are included below.

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Janice Lobo Sapigao reads "There Will Be No Funeral"

Janice Lobo Sapigao reads "There Will Be No Funeral" for Dear Poet 2021.