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"I wish I were a thinking stone."

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WEEKLY FEATURE


APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH


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TODAY'S POEM


Mar 14 Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]
by William Shakespeare
I will tell you

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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS


Spotlight Poet
Kenneth Rexroth
A life-long iconoclast, Rexroth railed against the dominance of the east-coast "literary establishment." While he refused to consider himself a Beat poet, his influence as champion of anti-establishment literature paved the way for others to write poems of passionate political engagement.

Spotlight Audio
Assault

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
read by Dorianne Laux
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Spotlight Essay
Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein

"In 1905, Picasso asked her to sit for a portrait, and the results were dark, brooding, and strange. Picasso famously said, 'Everybody says that she doesn't look like it, but that does not make any difference. She will...'"

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