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Aug. 27, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Tuesday's Poem: "Quite Frankly" by Mark Halliday, from Thresherphobe. Tuesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of Theodore Dreiser, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1871. Dreiser was a novelist kno...
Aug. 26, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Monday's Poem: "Found Poem" by Howard Nemerov, from War Stories. Monday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, born in Rome, Italy (1880). It's also t...
Aug. 25, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 25 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Sunday's Poem: "The End" by Victoria Redel, from Woman Without Umbrella. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1918)....
Aug. 24, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 24 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Saturday's Poem: "Myrtle" by John Ashbery, from Notes from the Air. Saturday's Literary Notes: It's the baptismal day of poet Robert Herrick (1591). He is best known for the poem "To the Virgins, to m...
Aug. 23, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Friday's Poem: "Talking in Kitchens" by Nick Laird, from Go Giants. Friday's Literary Notes: On this day in 1927 Nicola Sacco, a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish seller, were executed in Bos...
Aug. 21, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Wednesday's Poem: "Virgil's Bees" by Carol Ann Duffy, from The Bees. Wednesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the boy who inspired his father to write the children's classic Winnie- the-Pooh (...
Aug. 19, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Monday's Poem: "American Cheese" by Jim Daniels, from In Line for the Exterminator. Monday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of humorist poet Ogden Nash, born in Rye, New York, in 1902. And it's als...
Aug. 18, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 18 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Sunday's Poem: "Part of Eve's Discussion" by Marie Howe, from The Good Thief. Sunday's Literary Notes: Today is the birthday of Italian-born Viennese composer Antonio Salieri, born in Legnago, in the ...
Aug. 17, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 17 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Saturday's Poem: "Tullamore Poetry Recital" by Paul Durcan, from Daddy, Daddy. Saturday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the poet Ted Hughes, born in the town of Mytholmroyd, England (1930). He ...
Aug. 16, 2013: The Writer's Almanac 16 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Friday's Poem: "This Last Great Country Song" by Paul Muldoon, from Songs and Sonnets. Friday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of William Maxwell, born in Lincoln, Illinois (1908), a novelist, shor...
