A Poet Illumines the Life of the Mind

In today’s first “On the Square” article, Losana Boyd reviews a new collection of poems, Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City . “Brokenness haunts the pages” of the book, she writes in A Poet Haunted by Brokenness ., and the poet’s work “focuses on illuminating the life of the mind through a tapestry of richly drawn and arresting images.”

Coming a little later is a second “On the Square” by law professor Richard Stith on what the Republicans should do to the health care bill. And if you missed them, do go back and read the rest of this week’s offerings:

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