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National Poetry Month (April 06, 2005)
The Academy of American Poets is posting 30 ways to celebrate poetry, one every day this month. ... (continued)
Poetry Month poems #4 and #5, or, Dover Bitch (April 28, 2003) Because it's still poetry month, a pair of poems. First, this. Then this: So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them, And he said to her, 'Try to be true to... ... (continued)
Poetry Month poem #3 () Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a... ... (continued)
Poetry Month poem #2 (April 15, 2003) For National Poetry Month: One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop. The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the... ... (continued)
Poetry Month poem #1 (April 09, 2003) As I walk down misty, cherry-tree-lined city sidewalks, I think of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro": The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Although it does not obey the formal... ... (continued)
