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Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

“I learned many things during my study of dance that have everything to do with the writing of poetry.”

By Elizabeth Alexander | September 25, 2026

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I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

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“Masculinity, in this novel, is an inheritance of anguish and misadventure.”

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9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film

Jonathan Kaufman on Karen Nussbaum and the Fight For Working Women in 1970s America

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Sanna Wani on Crafting a Poetics of Daughterhood

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“There was the daughter I had been and the daughter that I was becoming. Both went hand in hand with poetry I was writing.”

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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

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Fady Joudah’s Meditation on Language and Time Under Genocide

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