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Joanna Penn Cooper
Oct 04, 2021
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Well, this summer was a whole journey. A whole series of journeys. I was able, through the good graces of friends and family to have two week-long writing retreats (one at my brother’s in Florida and one tagging along with Sara-Ethel during her Cabins retreat in Connecticut). Another friend, who recently won a big literary prize, gave me a “poetry grant…

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