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    A Year in Reading: Chet’la Sebree

    by Chet’la Sebree Dec 06, 2021 4 minutes

    I was so excited to do this, to proudly list all the books I read this year. Then, after sitting down, I realized the list was shorter than I thought. I started to wonder if I should list instead all the books I started and have yet to finish. Apparently, some of the frenetic energy born in the doom-scroll chaos of 2020 is still festering in me. Even when I looked back at the syllabi for classes I taught in the spring, I realize I didn’t assign full poetry collections, recognizing in my students the same struggle with attention.

    It wasn’t because I

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