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GRATEFUL FOR MS. BROOKS

As a thirty-plus-year subscriber to , I have relished all the issues but have never written a letter to the editor. That changed as I devoured every word of Major Jackson’s “Anatomy of a Pulitzer Prize Letter” (May/June 2017). Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the subject of the piece, was an

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