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  When Should Poetry Rhyme?

  4645 readersRhyme, although common, is not an essential attribute of poetry. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook. Original Post: When Should Poetry Rhyme?

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  Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology Published Online

  3612 readersThe Occupy Wall Street Library has just created a massive 400-page PDF version of their Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. Until today, the anthology had lived in binders floating around the Occupy Wall Street camp. Here’s more about the book: “For the past 6 weeks poets from around the world have been sending poems to the

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  Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology Seeks Essays

  3599 readersThe Occupy Wall Street librarians have published the tenth edition of the OWS Poetry Anthology. Follow this PDF link to download a free copy. In addition, the librarians are looking for “Poetic Introduction” essays to include in the anthology. The anthology seeks poems from all interested writers, and they will accept poems written in any language–just

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  Why We Need Poetry

  2152 readersI don’t know if it’s because poetry is the language of rebels, artists and mavericks, confounding expectations, breaking rules and saying this, this is how things might be or maybe that at times of the deepest emotion, we turn as if by instinct, back to poetry Of course perhaps it’s the invitation to play, to

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  Caroline Kennedy Celebrates National Poetry Month

  3734 readersThis week Caroline Kennedy appeared at a New York City Barnes & Noble to celebrate National Poetry Month and promote the release of her new book, She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems. Poet Sharon Olds (who has two pieces in Ke...

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  21 Love Poems | 04.26.12

  3284 readers InDigest Poetry Editor Brad Liening also runs Hell Yes Press, who has put up some good and good-looking releases. Their newest is a poetry anthology on cassette called 21 Love Poems. The InDigest Offices are completely biased on this one, but that doesn’t mean we’re wrong. The InDigest Offices believe this is a great thing and

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  American Life in Poetry: Column 283 | 08.24.10

  2647 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I’ve read dozens of poems written about the events of September 11, 2001, but this one by Tony Gloeggler of New York City is the only one I’ve seen that addresses the good fortune of a survivor. Five Years Later My brother was on his way to a dental appointment when the second

• American Life in Poetry: Column 316 | 04.12.11

  4276 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I’ve mentioned before how much I like poems that take the time to carefully observe people at work. Here David St. John, who lives in California, gives us a snapshot of workers protecting an orchard. Peach Fires Out in the orchards the dogs stood Almost frozen in the bleak spring night & Mister

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  American Life in Poetry: Column 304 | 01.18.11

  3046 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 After my mother died, one of the most difficult tasks for my sister and me was to take the clothes she’d made for herself to a thrift shop. In this poem, Frannie Lindsay, a Massachusetts poet, remembers a similar experience. The Thrift Shop Dresses I slid the white louvers shut so

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  Poem of the Day: Eric Gudas – “Poem With Words by Jules Supervielle” | 03.12.12

  4155 readersListen: Eric Gudas – “Poem With Words by Jules Supervielle” Eric Gudas brings us today’s poem for the podcast. The poem comes from his Gerald Cable Book Award-winning collection Best Western and Other Poems. Eric Gudas was born in Annapolis, Maryland. His poems, book reviews, and interviews with American poets have appeared in The American Poetry Review,