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    A Conversation with Garrison Keillor: Good Poems, American places

    A Conversation with Garrison Keillor: Good Poems, American places

    Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

    April 11, 2011


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    A Philadelphia Book Festival Event: Host and writer of Minnesota Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and the author of more than a dozen books including Homegrown Democrat, Lake Wobegon Days, Pontoon, and Liberty. A poetry connoisseur, he is the editor of Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times, and he hosts the American Public Media radio program and podcast The Writer’s Almanac, which features daily poetry readings. His new anthology includes selections from poets, such as Billy Collins, William Carlos Williams, and Mary Oliver that celebrate different regions of the land of the free.


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