Friday, October 2, 2020

Poet Wallace Stevens born 2 October 1879

 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47430/peter-quince-at-the-clavier


     On this date in 1879, poet Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, PA. I did my seminary internship there. Stevens was a lawyer and insurance executive, who would write scraps of poetry in board meetings. Above is one o


f his best.

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