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The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent. The Miami Herald reports that the poem, which is titled "The Hills We Climb," was removed from the K-5 curriculum after local parent Daily Salinas challenged it as …
As this winter of our discontent trudges on, most of our travel dreams remain grounded on the tarmac. Acclaimed Southern author Eudora Welty, bluntly conceding that “fiction is a lie,” argued that place cements credibility and adds life to a fictional work’s characters. “Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement …
