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	Poems about Flowers Jorie Graham: audio & interview Poems About Poetry: Ars Poetica ABCs: Rock & Roll and Poetry Alexander Pope: bio and poems Lord Byron: bio and epic excerpts Notes on Ekphrasis by Alfred Corn Mary Jo Bang in Conversation Li-Young Lee in Conversation


	THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

	Spotlight Poet James Tate Author of The Lost Pilot (1967), Tate's first collection influenced a generation of poets in the late sixties and seventies with its use of dream logic and psychological play. Spotlight Poem Chance by Molly Peacock may favor obscure brainy aptitudes in you / and a love of the past so blind you would / venture... Spotlight Essay Groundbreaking Book: The Dream Songs The publication of Berryman's 77 Dream Songs in 1964 marked the beginning of the major project of his career, culminating in nearly four hundred of his astonishing near-sonnets.


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