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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following guest post is by Phebe Miner, a summer 2017 intern in the Poetry and Literature Center. I need books like I need air. The starchy, full scent of pages and spines is pure oxygen to me. The calmest place I know is in a library’s stacks: endless new words in neat black and …
Posted in: Guest Posts
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Two weeks have passed since Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera‘s whirlwind day-long celebration, “Speak the People/the Spark/el Poema,” marking the end of his second term. I don’t know about you, but my head is still swirling and swimming from the festivities, and I keep catching myself humming tunes like “Ms. United States” and “Pillow People” …
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