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Whitman and Millet at the Museum of Fine Arts

January 4, 2022

Emily Dickinson, born today, December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts

December 10, 2021

Election Day, November, 1884

November 3, 2020

Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature

October 8, 2020

COVID-19 rereads: The poetry of Hemingway’s stories

July 23, 2020

COVID-19 rereads: Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

July 19, 2020

COVID-19 rereads: E. B. White 1899 -1995 on Walden, home, human nature and children

June 9, 2020

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 1927

April 30, 2020

Tree at My Window by Robert Frost

August 17, 2019

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

March 27, 2019

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