Today marks the final day of our 100 Woman Project, a special series we began on July 27 to count down 100 days before the 2020 election. We began with a profile of Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; 100 days later, …
Most of what I know about poetry can be summed up in this opening line: “There once was a girl from Nantucket …” I’m kidding, of course (kind of). But we’re talking poetry today because American poet Louise Glück was just awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. In announcing …