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TWA for Saturday, March 25, 2017
“Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his…
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TWA Poets: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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TWA for Friday, March 24, 2017
It was on this day in 1882, German doctor and microbiologist Robert Koch announced that he had found the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis…
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TWA for Thursday, March 23 2017
Today marks the first day in 1942 when the U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to internment camps. Between…
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TWA for Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Today would have been the 93rd birthday of Stephen Sondheim. The American composer and lyricist was born in 1930 to unhappy people. At 10 years old he…
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TWA for Tuesday, March 21, 2017
The Alabama Freedom March began on this date in 1965. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and 3,200 demonstrators set off on a 54-mile march from Selma…
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Mar 21
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TWA featured poet for March — Billy Collins
“1960” from The Rain in Portugal. Random House “Banana School” from Whale Day and Other Poems. Random House "House" from The Trouble with Poetry: And…
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Mar 20
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TWA for Monday, March 20, 2017
Today is the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Emily Dickinson said: “A little Madness in the Spring / Is wholesome…
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TWA for Sunday, March 19, 2017
Today is the birthday of novelist Philip Roth, born in 1933. In 1959, when he was 26 years old he published his first book, a novella and short stories…
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TWA for Saturday, March 18, 2017
Novelist John Updike was born on this day in 1932. His literary career had him write more than 50 books, including novels, poetry, short stories and…
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TWA for Friday, March 17, 2017
Today is the birthday of novelist and children's author Penelope Lively, her novel Moon Tiger (1987) won the Booker Prize. In Moon Tiger, she wrote: "We…
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TWA for Thursday, March 16, 2017
"The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever — they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must…
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