Virginia Military Institute poetry professor Julie Phillips Brown, reflecting on the mentorship she received from other poets, said she recently thanked a former professor for sifting through some early poems of hers that were ripe with “the pretensions of youth.”
“I basically thanked her for not crushing me,” Brown said, laughing.
Those ...
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