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• Book Review—I Was a First Alto in the 1980s: Poems by Deborah Garrison

  My love for reading poetry did not come about from my childhood of always having a book in my hand, under my desk, or beneath the covers late at night. It also didn’t come about from my degree in the Humanities. It came about from teaching middle school language arts for almost 20 years, with…

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  October 25, 2026

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