A new English course at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts takes a look at Taylor Swift's lyrics and compares ...

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Cassie Phillips, 32, the author of the poem "Let Them," was misidentified as another person with the same name.) This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older ...