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Inside Seattle radio host's decades-long pen pal friendship with late novelist Tom Robbins
If my relationship with Tom Robbins had ended the same day it started, I would've thought of him fondly for the rest of my ...
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Island View Elementary students sending letters, poems, art to Ukrainian children
In the midst of war and a tumultuous geopolitical climate, the Anacortes-based Sunflower F.U.N.D. will return to Ukraine with ...
Scientific American19h
Poem: ‘(origins, positrons)’
Science in meter and verse ...
When Robert Frost Was Bad
Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...
Seattle Met1d
At Seattle Children’s Hospital, Writing Classes Keep Hope Alive
Ann Teplick walks down halls both colorful and labyrinthine, a suitcase on wheels trailing behind her. She arrives at her ...
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Black History Month: The Twin Poets, Delaware’s Poet Laureate
DELAWARE- Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou- names we recognize when it comes to African American poets. Local ...
19 Black Poets Whose Work Will Move and Inspire You
But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...
Martyrs? Bacchanalia? Chaucer? Delving into the murky origins of Valentine’s Day
According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...