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Writing, reading, and teaching poetry: Messages in bottles

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Abner Oakes

One of my favorite classes in high school was a quarter-long course I took on vocabulary. Yeah, I know: I was doomed even then to be an English major. Mr. Whalen taught the class, each day we memorized ten words … Continue reading →

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