Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
Sarah Heady
December 11, 2018
Photo: Sarah Heady
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Sarah Heady is the librettist of Unfinished, a new opera about the death and life of a women’s college, in collaboration with composer Joshua Groffman and Vital Opera.
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