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| Ashley Norwood Cooper (L) and Alicia Stallings |
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Ashley Norwood Cooper & Alicia Stallings
In the middle of an unusually busy Saturday, I took a break to see poet and recent MacArthur Award winner Alicia Stallings, who stopped to see Ashley Norwood Cooper on her way to Ithaca College. Alicia is a fine poet, and Ashley is a fine painter. It was a lovely visit, which I memorialize here:
You can learn more about Ashley and her paintings here, and you may learn more about Alicia and her poems here.
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