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Erin E. Billings

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Reviews for National Poetry Month

Poetry gets no respect. Readers of poetry are somehow "different" and "strange" creatures. Maybe those elusive poetry readers were high-school


Literary Figurehead Writes Serious Poetry

FIGUREHEAD By John Hollander Knopf $22, 96pp. I have a confession to make. When I read poetry, I like to


Poems. Poems. Poems

Poetry gets no respect. Readers of poetry are somehow "different" and "strange" creatures. Maybe those elusive poetry readers were high-school


Prof. Outlines Standards for Democracy

The reasons why democracy exists are difficult to define and even trickier to implement properly, UCLA political scientist James Q.


Scholar Sets Prerequisites for Democracy

The reasons why democracy exists are difficult to define and even trickier to implement properly, UCLA political scientist James Q.


Perpetual Motion: An Evening of Time, Money, and

The most spellbinding, intricate, beautiful, moving and dramatic student production I have ever seen on the Mainstage doesn't have a


Niagara Falling

QUEEN OF THE MIST: THE FORGOTTEN HEROINE OF NIAGARA Joan Murray Beacon Press 110 pp., $20 The things we won't


Among the Blind, Chaos is King

Beads of sweat break out on your forehead and slowly travel down your face, into your nose, stinging your eyes.


In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative

THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO By Christopher Durang At Hasty Pudding Theater, Cambridge Through Nov. 8 Sometimes the most