Books & Literary Life

Updated 3.3.2014

Video: Modern-Day Romanticism

November-December 2010

Poet April Bernard ’78 is profiled in the November-December 2010 issue. In this video, she speaks about poetry and her recent book Romanticism, and reads three poems from it.

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