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Today's Poem and Literary Notes
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The Writer's Almanac
Sunday's Poem: : "Thistles" by Ted Hughes from Collected Poems. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of feminist artist Judy Chicago, born Judy Cohen, in Chicago (1939). She grew up in a secular Jewish family and her father was, according to her, "an atheist, a radical, and a labor organizer." She began drawing when she was a toddler and from a very early age she knew she wanted to be an artist. She said, "Because my mother worked and because I saw women participating fully in all the discussions that went on in the house, I grew up with the sense that I could do what I wanted and be what I wanted." At age eight, she started taking Saturday lessons at the Chicago Art Institute.
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