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  • Lenny’s “Divertimento” [by David Lehman]

    August 25, 2020

    So you've never heart it before, / or even heard it,  / you're driving on Highland Road when it starts, / and instead of driving up East Remington and home, / you drive down…

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  • Quote of the Day: Sylvia Plath

    August 25, 2020

    "August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."             — Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, August, 1952

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  • Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) conducts the overture to “Candide”

    August 25, 2020

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  • Without Restaurants [by Adrienne Su]

    August 25, 2020

    Poet Faith Shearin reports from sheltering-in-place in Massachusetts: “We are cooking a ton because even the carry out in Amherst and Northampton has shut down. I miss restaurants more than I can say. I…

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  • The Pauses between Poems [by Adrienne Su]

    August 24, 2020

    Most of the poets I know have been temporarily silenced, at least in verse, by the Covid-19 crisis. Recent months recall the aftermaths of 9/11 and the 2016 presidential election: impossible to write creatively…

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  • Adrienne Su, Guest Author August 24-28

    August 24, 2020

    photo © Guy Freeman This week we welcome back Adrienne Su as our guest author. Adrienne is Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania. Her fifth collection of poems, Peach…

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