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Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts is a writer best known for promoting an ethic of independent travel. His work, reported from over fifty countries, has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Slate, Conde Nast Traveler, The Guardian and on National Public Radio. He is summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.

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  • The Last Antiwar Poem

    November 14, 2006

    Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," written at the height of the Vietnam War, speaks with a jarring relevance today.

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