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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