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Beating January

Ten years ago I was in the first months of my year of reading a book a day. And for the first time in years, I did not suffer the January…
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Honor in the Civil War, Then and Now

Honor in the Civil War, Then and Now

John Kelly describes the Civil War as arising out of a failure “to compromise”; he also cautions against applying contemporary standards of…
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Diagnosing the Lowells

Diagnosing the Lowells

In her latest book, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison uses Robert Lowell’s medical records to explore the…
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The Lowells and the Community of America

The Lowells and the Community of America

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the Lowells of Massachusetts faced the same overriding question that Americans face today: what…
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Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a notice that caught her eye. U.S. Army training camps were in…
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Amy Lowell and the Art of the Audience

Amy Lowell and the Art of the Audience

On a cold, wet day in March of 1915, Amy Lowell stepped up on the dais in the large meeting room of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park…
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James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

The other day on Instagram, I shared four anti-war lines from James Russell Lowell’s serial poem, The Biglow Papers. Tricia Tierney, friend…
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Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a notice that caught her eye. U.S. Army training camps were in…
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James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

The other day on Instagram, I shared four anti-war lines from James Russell Lowell’s serial poem, The Biglow Papers. Tricia Tierney, friend…
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Greetings from James Russell Lowell

Greetings from James Russell Lowell

As an sign of his widespread popularity, postcard dealers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began making seasonal and…
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Returning to Therapy

Returning to Therapy

Book therapy, that is. Eight years ago I began my year of reading a book a day. I was looking for escape, wisdom, comfort, and clarity…
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Forty-Six Years of Amy Lowell Fandom

Forty-Six Years of Amy Lowell Fandom

When I was in second grade I edited my first book of poetry. All the poems I chose had fall as the theme and I decorated the cover of the…
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