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...Your most recent collection of poetry, “District and Circle,” won the 2006 T.S. Eliot prize. What makes this anthology different from the others you’ve published...
...title comes from the two underground railway lines in London, the District Line and the Circle Line. London is a new setting for me. It’s haunted by 9/11 and the new world of menace and unease. If you go into an underground train in London—probably anywhere, but chiefly in London—there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries. The speaker is a passenger with a slight sense of strangeness, but he could be somebody...
...willing to work but there are no jobs. I don’t know how to work a computer, but I’ll wash dishes, I’ll do anything,” he said. State Representative Alice K. Wolf, whose district includes Harvard Square, said she sympathizes with Reddick. “This downturn of the economy has hit working people particularly hard,” said Wolf. In order to combat this epic rise in homelessness, Wolf has lobbied for appropriations for the homeless. This fiscal year’s budget includes $10 million for temporary...
Cambridge public schools that failed to achieve the targets of No Child Left Behind could still be making progress, district officials said at a presentation to the city’s school committee last night. Maryann MacDonald, the executive director of student achievement and accountability, and superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, discussed the district’s results on the MCAS, the state’s standardized tests, highlighting both areas of improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state...
...Last week, the McCain campaign reacted to a polling downturn by shuttering its operation in the state of Michigan and redistributing staff to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Maine, where electoral votes are distributed by congressional district. In a conference call last week, Mike DuHaime, the McCain campaign's political director, acknowledged that the national mood and Obama's deep pockets had put previously solid Republican states like Indiana in play...