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A note from the editor: St. Petersburg poet Laureate Peter Meinke opens his slice of Arcadia to New Roots News

By: Taylor Tepper | New Roots News | April 1, 2011 It starts with a wooden beam that runs parallel to the ceiling in the den. It starts with a waxwing tapping against a glass window. It starts with some innocuous, quotidian, exchange with the children. It can start with anything. Peter Meinke, St. Petersburg’s [...]

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A note from the editor: St. Pete’s ignored lake

By: Taylor Tepper | New Roots News | April 9, 2011 On October 14, 2009, Jason Robert Alamed was found dead floating in Mirror Lake. He was fully clothed, and there were no signs of violence. Mr. Alamed was 37. This is the type of story that has come to define Mirror Lake. It is [...]

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