WASHOUGAL — When she was a kid in school, Susan Dingle detested poetry.
“I didn’t understand it. It made me mad. It was a world I felt like I was excluded from,” she said.
That changed when one high school English teacher introduced her to “Ulalume,” a dark, visionary dreamworld by Edgar Allen Poe.
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