The Writer's Almanac

Today's Poem and Literary Notes

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  Thursday's Poem: "Terms of Endearment" by Sue Ellen Thompson, from The Leaving: New and Selected Poems. Thursday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, a village in the Black Forest of Germany (1877). He's the author of the novels Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1929), and The Glass Bead Game (1943), as well as a large body of poetry.