Ellen Bass Hard Hat Reading @poetshouse

Ellen Bass Hard Hat Reading @poetshouse

Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

Award-winning poet and editor Ellen Bass reads her late mentor Florence Howe’s “Seven Rooms” and her own poem “Lightning Streak of White” dedicated to Howe.

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