Happy Birthday, Edna!

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Today is Edna St. Vincent Millay's 119th birthday.  Go here for some lovely quotes from her poems, or here to learn more about the third woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Or, find more of her poems here, at The Poetry Foundation's site. 

I feel I owe Edna (or Vincent, as her friends called her at Vassar) at least one happy birthday wish -- reading her sonnets as a teenager taught me how meaningful this form can be in the modern world, and permanently addicted me to writing them.