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Bridge Street at Dusk with Poet Tom Sexton

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Tom Sexton's collection of Lowell poems called "Bridge Street at Dusk" follows his collection "A Clock With No Hands" which focused on the mill town where he lived in Lowell, Mass. during the 1940's and 1950's. Tom Sexton's Alaskan poems can be found in in iTunes U under the Alaska Literary Events Live.

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