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        <description>Each day, The Writer&apos;s Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reading a short poem or two. The Writer&apos;s Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.</description>
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		<itunes:summary>Each day, The Writer&apos;s Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reading a short poem or two. The Writer&apos;s Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Jul. 04, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Saturday’s Poem: “Highway Hypothesis” by Maxine Kumin, from The Long Marriage. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1931 that James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went down to a courthouse in London and got married. Joyce was 49 years old, and Nora was 47. The two had eloped more than a quarter of a century before…<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/75YNfTpsCBE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Jul. 03, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Friday’s Poem: “At the Airport Baggage Claim” by Charles Darling, from The Saints of Diminshed Capacity. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Franz Kafka, born in Prague (1883). Kafka’s best-known work is The Metamorphosis, which begins, “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous bug.”..<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/6gIALaO7QWk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul, 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>

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		<title>Jul. 02, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Thursday’s Poem: “Terms of Endearment” by Sue Ellen Thompson, from The Leaving: New and Selected Poems. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, a village in the Black Forest of Germany (1877). He’s the author of the novels Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1929), and The Glass Bead Game (1943), as well as a large body of poetry…<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/pkeIfSlhsh0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul, 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>

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		<title>Jul. 01, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Wednesday’s Poem: “Advice to a Pregnant Daughter-in-Law” by Charles Darling, from The Saints of Diminished Capacity. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of grammarian William Strunk Jr., born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1869). He was a professor at Cornell University for 46 years, and during that time, he created the “little book” known as The Elements of Style (1918) in order to make it easier to grade his students’ composition papers…<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/LXHU189oSYI" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul, 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>

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		<title>Jun. 30, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Tuesday’s Poem: “The Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road” by Muriel Spark, from All The Poems of Muriel Spark. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1936 that Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind was first published…<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/rEs8nw-fkb8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun, 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>

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		<title>Jun. 29, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Monday’s Poem: “The Effort” by Billy Collins, from Ballistics. Monday’s Literary Notes: On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre burned down. It was built by Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, in 1599. A cannon was fired during a performance of Henry VIII to mark the King’s entrance, the thatched roof caught fire, and the whole theater was lost in an hour…<img src="?i=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F"~r/writersalmanac/~4/IehRHN7t81I" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun, 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>

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		<title>Jun. 29, 2009: The Writer's Almanac</title>
		<description> <![CDATA[Monday’s Poem: “The Effort” by Billy Collins, from Ballistics. Monday’s Literary Notes: On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre burned down. It was built by Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, in 1599. A cannon was fired during a performance of Henry VIII to mark the King’s entrance, the thatched roof caught fire, and the whole theater was lost in an hour…]]></description>
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