Archive for February, 2007

Who has seen the wind?

Dismayed and disappointed by the children’s poetry selections in bookstores, Anne Fernham is glad she kept her girlhood favorites.

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Participation in the school band may occur

I unearthed this photo (more here) for When I Was A Loser, an anthology to which — are you sitting down? — I contributed an essay. The designers didn’t end up using the evidence we contributors compiled, so I figured I might as well amuse (or horrify) you by posting mine here. Meanwhile, though, I wanted to mention a small . . .

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Auden trivia

From the Guardian’s Auden quiz: “Which famous theatre role does every man secretly want to play, according to Auden?”

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