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    Oxford poetry drama’s Canuck connection

    UAlberta welcomes Nobel Prize-winning poet, despite accusations

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    Newsmakers of the week

    Judy Blume causes a moral panic, Kiefer Sutherland demands satisfaction, and introducing Dr. Dolly Parton

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    Alternatives to reading Obama’s inaugural poem

    There’s been a bit of discussion of the poem read at Barack Obama’s inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander. I wasn’t moved, and haven’t heard from anybody who was (although I have to guess Jack Layton liked her line about “the figuring it out at kitchen tables”). Still, I think it’s great that a poem was read at all.