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The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...
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Poem: Ode to Helen
This poem is for her friend, Helen Voss. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...
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Review: Poet Maria Zoccola brings Homeric mythology to Sparta, Tennessee, in ‘Helen of Troy, 1993’
Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...
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Notable African Americans who helped change the world
Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography ... wrote the poem "Dear Basketball ...