Birth

The ladies try to place the poet in this episode that combines geography with poetry.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:

Rita Dove is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Visit her online here. If you hadn't heard about the controversy surrounding the edition, here's a recap. 

Read Seamus Heaney's "Digging" from Death of a Naturalist (1966)

Read Donald Justice's poem "Psalm and Lament" 

We read William Stafford's poem "Traveling Through the Dark" in our Touchstone Poems episode. 

Ellen Bryant Voigt is from Danville, Virginia

 Read more about Mary Gabriel's 2018 book Ninth Street Women. And read more aboutSusan Glaspell's collected stories here, or read her powerful one-act play "Trifles." During the Great Depression, Glaspell worked in Chicago for the Works Progress Administration, where she was Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.

Visit Bruce Snider online.

If one wanted to track state arts funding, one could use this explorer tool at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.