Wednesday
Mar. 27, 1996
Reason
Today's reading: "Reason" by Josephine Miles from COLLECTED POEMS, published by University of Illinois Press.
It's the anniversary of the 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska.
Mount St. Helena erupted on this day in 1980.
It's the birthday of French novelist Louis Henri Murger, born in 1822.
German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (x-ray) was born in 1845.
It's the birthday of American photographer Edward Steichen, born in Luxembourg, 1879.
Poet Louis Simpson was born on this day in 1923.
It's the birthday of jazz singer Sarah Vaughn, born in Newark, 1924.
Author, journalist Anthony Lewis was born in 1927.
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