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Essays Videos Reading #57 Hoerner Mary Beth

Video: Mary Beth Hoerner wrestles with her pride

  • William Shunn

William Shunn

30 May 2013
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At the May 7th edition of Tuesday Funk, Mary Beth Hoerner related a tale of punctured grade-school pride, and it sounded a little like this...

And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening with Darwyn Jones, Heather Corallo, Lawrence Santoro, Mare Swallow, and G.P.A. (Greatest Poet Alive)!

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