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A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk

On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk.

Maggie Lange
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Poetry and Poets, Schiff, Robyn
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