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The winner of many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, American poet and translator A.E. Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia, and Oxford, U.K. In 1999 she emigrated to Athens, Greece,…
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Dr. Bethune’s Last Will & Testament
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Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, was born on a South Carolina farm in 1875. The child of former slaves, she went on to become…
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Hospice Staff Discuss Language, Loneliness and Empathy
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The situation of the poem immediately provoked some outrage and indignation. We began to discuss the strong links between language, context, and perception. We noted how powerful it is to…
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German-born poet and translator Lisel Mueller fled the Nazi regime with her family when she was 15. Her family immigrated to the US and settled in Indiana, where Mueller attended…
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Young Armless Man in the Barbecue Restaurant
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Brooklyn-born poet Phyllis Koestenbaum is senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. "Admission of Failure" appeared in a collection of Koestenbaum's prose poems…