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Words of the Week: #FreeEvan

by Erika Dreifus on April 4, 2023
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Reporters @msrmichaelson and @jmalsin are spearheading a drive to set aside a place at the Passover table Wed. night for @evangershkovich, the WSJ reporter taken into a Russian jail on espionage charges.

(And share photos of the table place, via the #APlaceforEvan hashtag) pic.twitter.com/nLSxRzlezq

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 3, 2023
an assortment of screens: laptop, phone, tablet, plus other desk items, and a text label that reads, "Words of the Week"

Holidays, Words of the Week

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Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, and literary advocate whose latest book, Birthright: Poems, was published by Kelsay Books in fall 2019. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.

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