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Hump Day Wild Card — 4.19.17

Washington Poet Laureate Tod Marshall tells Huckleberries that the first 500 books of "The Bard of Sherman Avenue: The Poems of Tom Wobker" -- three runs -- have almost sold out. And that's significant. Quoth Tod: 400-500 books sold in a few months is wonderful.  Sometimes a first printing for a book of poems (1,000 or so copies) will take years to sell out.  People love The Bard." Indeed. Here's your Hump Day Wild Card ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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