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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS |
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Spotlight Poet
Phillis Wheatley
Born in Gambia, Senegal, Wheatley was sold into slavery at age seven. As a servant, she quickly learned to read and write English—as well as Greek and Latin—and is the first published African-American poet.
Spotlight Poem
Pastoral
by Jennifer Chang
Something in the field is / working away. Root-noise. / Twig-noise...
Spotlight Audio
A Love Song
by William Carlos Williams
Read by Ron Silliman
Spotlight Essay
On Poet Couples
by Craig Morgan Teicher
"Most poets, at one time or another, write their way into the hearts of their chosen lasses or lads, but sometimes something slightly more unusual happens: two poets fall in love with each other..."
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FEATURED NOTEBOOK |
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Poems on the Moon
Selected by plegault
Collected here are some lunar lyrics about/around/with/for the Earth's favorite satellite, including poems by Gertrude Stein, Brenda Shaugnessy, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Mina Loy and more.
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