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Richard Wilbur's Mind: Flying Through the Dark

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Oliver's Reckless Poem: Reincarnational Intimations

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Hayden's American Journal: The Quiddity of American Exceptionalism

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Angelou's Touched by an Angel: We, unaccustomed to courage

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Kinnell's Blackberry Eating: Delicious Words on the Tongue

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Kay Ryan's Home to Roost: A Clever, Little Ditty

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Neruda's Sonnet 73: You will perhaps recall that pointed man

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Brooks' the vacant lot: A Joyful Absence

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Two Poems by George Washington: Young Love

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Collins' The Golden Years: Musing for Amusement

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Yogananda's Luther Burbank: A Tribute to Accomplishment

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Hughes' Night Funeral in Harlem: A Question of Love

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Frost and the Versanelle: Master of Form

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Dickinson's Color—Caste—Denomination: The Futility of Human Classification

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Winch's Social Security: No Safety Nowadays

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Frost's The Freedom of the Moon: The Greatness of Human Free Will

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Dickinson's I measure every Grief I meet: The Way of Suffering

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Dickinson's After great pain: A Sculpture of Suffering

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Dickinson's As imperceptibly as grief: Musing into Beauty

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Johnson's Mother Night: God as Divine Mother

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Ferlinghetti's In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem: The Art of Exaggeration

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Simic's My Shoes: Post-postmodern Trivial Nonsense

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Dickinson's There is another sky: Another World Created by Art

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Whitman's Song of the Banner at Daybreak: The Patriot’s Symbol

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Sandburg's Chicago: A Hulking Man of Steel

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Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee: Death Rimes With Love

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Turner's Here, Bullet: Fear and Transformation

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Poet for June – James Weldon Johnson: Listen, Lord A Prayer

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Frost's A Girl's Garden: Memory Lane

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Williams' Proletarian Portrait: Capitalizing on the Marxist Mystique

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Dobyns' How to Like It: After Outliving One’s Enthusiasm

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May Poet – Countée Cullen: Analysis of Simon the Cyrenian Speaks

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Frost Speaker Explores Connection of Two Worlds: Analysis of The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

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Wallace Stevens' The Snow Man: A Winter Realization

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Sexton's Her Kind: The Drama of Identity

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Interview with Vince Gotera: Poet, Editor, Professor, Blogger

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Poems for Children: The Joy of Childhood

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Lindsay's The Traveller-Heart: A Burial Preference

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Dickinson's The Robin's my Criterion for Tune: Seeing New Englandly

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Kay's Pathedy of Manners: The Claptrap of Class and Gender Bias

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Cullen's Yet Do I Marvel: The Joy of a Singing Black Poet

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Alexander's Praise Song for the Day: The Obama Inaugural Verse

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Johnson's The Temptress: Confronting Evil

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Hayden's The Whipping: Victims of Domestic Violence

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Frost's Carpe Diem: An Erroneous Concept

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Rita Dove – Two Sonnets: Golden Oldies and Exit

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Frost's A Prayer in Spring: The Joy of Simple Gratitude and Love

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Brown's Riverbank Blues: The Rhythm of Melancholy

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Dickinson's A Light exists in Spring: The Heart's Vision

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Bryant's The Yellow Violet: A Lesson in Humility

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Gwendolyn Bennett's Love Sonnet: Some things are very dear to me

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Teasdale's I Am Not Yours: A Drama of Deep Love

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Obama's Underground: Where Apes Breathe Under Water

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Whitman's Cavalry Crossing a Ford: A Poetry Snapshot

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Langston Hughes' Cross: Stereotype of the Mixed Race Male

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Obama's Poem Pop: President as Versifier

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Poe's The Sleeper: Not One Man in a Million

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Plath's Death & Co. Melodrama and Fantasy

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Dickinson's Why do I love you, Sir? The Logic of Love

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Whittier's The Mystic's Christmas: Celebrating the Christ Within

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Stern's I Who Lifted a Car: Singing the Dementia Blues

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Dickinson's The Soul selects her own Society: The Grace of Solitude

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Elizabeth Alexander's Blues: Sloth Without Music

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Whittier's Maud Muller: What Might Have Been

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Harte's Mrs. Judge Jenkins: A Parody of Whittier’s Maud Muller

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Morgan's Six Tree Sparrows: A Winter Harvest

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Dickinson's I cannot dance upon my Toes: A Self-Styled Ecstasy

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Brooks' The Boy Died in My Alley: The Nameless Running Boy

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Emerson's Threnody: Ode to Grief

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Bishop's One Art: The Art of Losing

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November Poet – Anne Sexton: “Music Swims Back to Me”

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Berry's How To Be a Poet: Respect the Silence

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Frost's Christmas Trees: A Christmas Circular Letter

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Badger Clark's The Christmas Trail: Home for Christmas

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Gwynn's Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins: Escaping an Unholy Marriage

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Dove's Adolescence: The Blossoming Imagination

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Plath's Mirror: Watching Her Aging Face

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Plath's Metaphors: Body Obsession

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Langston Hughes' Life is Fine: The Saving Grace of Rhythm and Blues

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Johnson's My City: A Loving Bite of the Big Apple

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Robert Frost's Hyla Brook: The Things We Love

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Huff's The Hymn of a Fat Woman: Growing Fat Munching on Apples

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Linda Pastan's A New Poet: The Excitement of Discovery

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Countée Cullen's Incident: A Racist Remark

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Ted Kooser's Selecting a Reader: An Afternoon Fantasy

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Dick Allen's A Cautionary: Life’s Four-Step Plan

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Nemerov's Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket: Averted Sense

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Ritchie's Sorting Laundry: Life in the Wash

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October Poet – Arna Bontemps: ‘God Give to Men’

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Lucille Clifton - What About the Slaves? ‘at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989’

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Louise Glück's Siren: From Waitress to Criminal

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Dana Gioia's Thanks For Remembering Us: Flowers by Mistake

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Cullen's The Wise: The Cool Dead

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Brooks' The Bean Eaters: Poverty Sonnet

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Millay's Sonnet I: Beauty and Poison

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September Poet - William Carlos Williams: Poetry as a Transforming Power

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Edgar Lee Masters' Lucinda Matlock: Wisdom for the Degenerates

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Dana Gioia's The Sunday News: Saving a Memory

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Richard Wright's Five Haikus: Seasons and Sorrow

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Dove's My Mother Enters the Work Force: She Worked Hard to Enter That Force

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

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