But as Ticktin’s verse reminded me, bad poets gotta poet.
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Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
The weekend festival will feature esteemed authors and cultural luminaries, spanning literary heavyweights, performers, celebrity authors, poets, politicians and journalists.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
How the Script Walks a Tonal Tightrope Radcliffe credited playwrights Macmillan and Donahoe with building a structure that lets the performer pivot rapidly between the heavy and the silly.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
If the surprisingly rough-and-tumble world of 16th-century playwrights doesn’t immediately compel you, know that this is the kind of book in which every page is filled with an unexpected twist or insight (however speculative or hard to prove these conclusions may turn out to be).
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NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2026
More details were not immediately available with information coming out of Iran severely limited by internet outages, round-the-clock airstrikes and tight restrictions on journalists.
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