Summary:
Thursday’s Poem: anonymous words of wisdom - from the Faber Book of Useful Verse Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania (1879). Some people thought it was odd for an insurance executor to write poetry. Stevens did not. He said, “It gives a man character as a poet to have this daily contact with a job.” And he said, “Poetry and surety claims aren’t as unlikely a combination as they may seem. There’s nothing perfunctory about them for each…
