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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

- Ellen Bass

Read, Listeners, Several, Internationally

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

- Ellen Bass

Love, Living, Other, Hardly

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

- Ellen Bass

Here, Leave, Moved, Cruz

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

- Ellen Bass

Love, Think, Been, Introduced

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

- Ellen Bass

Myself, Want, Then, Intimate

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