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C.D. Wright, Phi Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works...

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Photograph by Jim Harrison

C.D. Wright, Phi Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works.

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