by Rebecca Copeland | May 13, 2026 | Memories
Ron perched on the edge of the desk. He held a book of poems in one hand, a cigarette in the other. “We’ll work on Japanese forms today,” he said. “The tanka. Show me what you’ve got.” Over the weekend he had assigned Kenneth Rexroth’s One Hundred Poems from the... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Apr 8, 2026 | Memories, Retirement
Lately I’ve been going through drawers upon drawers of files, deciding what to keep and what to toss. Retirement approaches, and I need to clear out my office. I have more than 35 years to go through covering the work I’ve done at Washington University. Some files and...
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