SPOTLIGHT

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman Friday, February 21, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman Friday, February 21, 2025

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Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Burned

Read Me a Poem

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Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

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Read Me a Poem

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

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Read Me a Poem

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Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

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