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A bit on Emily Hahn, one of my favorite forgotten writers.

      "wolf blueberries"

some wild place left · solaceless
   from the turmoil go

Hey Siri.

"This is a place that supposedly receives three days of sunshine a year, has no jobs, alcoholism is the only past time, and eviscerated Soviet era buildings bookend concrete khrushevkas. The population here is overwhelmingly Russian, and they pray each day for a Russian invasion. It might improve things." —Jace Shugden via

"I immediately wondered about this poem, this poet, and down the rabbit hole I went, to discover that Carl Sagan had been Diane Ackerman’s doctoral adviser at Cornell and that she had gone on to publish a collection of astronomy-inspired poems."