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"&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CLiterature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul.\u201D&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;\u2014&lt;a href=\"http://www.pen-ne.org/event-details/2015/12/5/an-evening-with-lyudmila-ulitskaya\"&gt;Lyudmila Ulitskaya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are a chapter of &lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.pen.org\"&gt;PEN American Center&lt;/a&gt;, part of a global association of writers celebrating literature and defending free expression.&amp;nbsp;We make our home at the &lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://shass.mit.edu/\"&gt;MIT School of Humanities, Arts &amp;amp; Social Sciences&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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