Saturday’s Poem: “Planting a Sequoia” by Dana Gioia from The Gods of Winter. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the journalist A.J. Liebling, born Abbott Joseph Liebling in New York City, 1904. He got kicked out of Dartmouth for missing too many chapel services, so he became a reporter. He was a WWII correspondent for The New Yorker, and he ignored politics and combat strategy and just wrote about day-to-day life among the soldiers and the civilians. One of his most famous books is…