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Over breakfast this morning, Aidan and I composed this haiku (the ideas are mostly his). Landed cardinalEyes alert, darts to the firs.All trace, swept by snow. From our language play this morning, Aidan came up with an idea for a short story. He’s already taking notes. I’m excited to see how it might develop.

It’s that time a year again when students are frantically completing their various final projects, research papers, and so on. Taylor Mali offers us some good advice for the season regarding the the impotence of proofreading… Here he is performing his poem by that very name (on stage with former Poet Laureate Billy Collins).