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Hard Hat Reading: Ellen Bass
Award-winning poet and editor Ellen Bass reads her late mentor Florence Howe’s “Seven Rooms” and her own poem dedicated to Howe, “Lightning Streak of White.”
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2018: A Tribute to No More Masks! & Florence Howe with Ellen Bass, Natalie Diaz, Marie Howe, Aracelis Girmay, Donna Masini, Saretta Morgan & Alicia Ostriker
Recorded At: Poets House Recorded On: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
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