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April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party4
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“April is the cruelest month,” begins T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.” Literal-minded folks living in Minnesota in January or Alabama in August might get a few chuckles from that line. Cruelty and chuckles aside, April is also National Poetry Month (NPM). Initiated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, “National Poetry Month
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- March 28, 2025
In January, my young friend Anna and I inventoried authors by gender on the “New Fiction” shelves of our public library. That count came to 123 novels and short story collections written by women, 64 authored by men. The disparity came as no thunderbolt to me, as I’d noticed for several years the number of
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- March 24, 2025
I’m the old guy. Threescore and ten years, that traditional marker for old age, disappeared from my rearview mirror a while ago. The U.S. Census Bureau defines young adults as those between the ages of 18 and 34. These are the men and women who will soon command our politics, our economy, and our culture.
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- March 21, 2025
If literature were a food pyramid, a ranking of vitamins and nutrients for the mind and soul, the classics would be the equivalent of steak, eggs, and fish, books high in intellectual protein like Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Sigrid Undset’s “Kristin Lavransdatter,” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Next would come the fruit
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