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PEN Podcast: Claire Donato reads “Ave Maria” by Frank O’Hara

PoetrySeptember 18, 2015

Frank O'Hara's collection Lunch Poems was banned from English classes at Aurora High School in 1976 for its sexual content. In celebration of this year's Banned Books Week, this… More

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