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A masterclass from Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Shaun Usher
Mar 01, 2023
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1922. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

On this day in 1918, a brief but perfectly-formed letter was written to the editor of Poetry magazine by one of its contributing poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay, who seemingly found it impossible to craft a bad one. When I find the time—and befor…

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