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Oct 10, 2026
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Kate Chopin, 1899, one summer on Grand Isle, and a beginning that does not feel like peace.
Oct 8, 2026
Walt Whitman, 1860. He never said a word to the stranger. He wrote ten lines instead.
Oct 5, 2026
Shakespeare, around 1602. A woman disguised as a boy is told no woman could love the way he does, and she cannot answer as herself.
Oct 3, 2026
Willa Cather, 1913. Her brothers said she was too old for it, and that he only wanted the land.
Oct 1, 2026
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850. A forest, a brook, and a clasp she finally undid.
Sep 28, 2026
W. B. Yeats, 1892, and a poem addressed to a woman by a fire, many years from now, with his book open in her lap.
