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Acrostic Valentine Poems Consumed Crazy-In-Love Colonials

By Dylan Hostetter Nearly 300 years before pop love tunes crowded February airwaves, Virginians penned acrostic love poetry. First published in the Virginia Gazette, they became known as “the lovers’ literary crusade of 1768.”  Acrostic poets use the first letter of each line to spell a hidden message—in these poems, it was the name of […]
June 10, 2025

Exposure: In Bloom, Peppermint Soda (1977)

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June 12, 2025

Exposure: In Bloom, Alma’s Rainbow (1994)

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