News at Eleven: "The first time I lifted a pair

of binoculars and looked through them, and saw, on the lake near the college, a huge Caspian tern hover above the lake and then plunge down into it, white body, black head, red beak, this plummeting plunge into the water and then come up with a fish, and seeing it close up, through glasses — it just knocked me out," [Robert] Hass says.

from The Leaf-Chronicle: Poet laureate shares love of opinions

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