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NEW ORLEANS — I recently revisited the city of New Orleans, 45 years after receiving my last academic degree from Tulane University. In my first report, I wrote about the opera Blue that we attended there, as well as a visit to the Laura Plantation a few miles up the Mississippi River.
Tucson, Arizona, 1978. photograph by Lois Shelton, © Arizona Board of Regents, courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. In early March of 2021, Louise Glück visited Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, where I teach. Because of COVID, she was afraid to fly on a...
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