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Poems About Friends

Poets have written extensively about literary and personal friendships. This week share a poem that resonates with your friends and family in honor of International Friendship Day on July 30.  


After the Movie

by Marie Howe

Your Catfish Friend

by Richard Brautigan

Friend

by Jean Valentine

Mending Wall

by Robert Frost

The Bridge, Palm Sunday, 1973

by Alfred Corn

On Gifts for Grace

by Bernadette Mayer

Dear Friends

by Edwin Arlington Robinson



Poets' Recipes

Cooking, much like poetry, is a creative process. Here are seven recipes from contemporary poets ready to serve you the secrets behind their favorite dishes and drinks.
 
Kazim Ali's Chocolate Peanut Butter Dairy-free Ice Cream

Kevin Killian
& Dodie Bellamy's Potato Salad

J. D. McClatchy
's Lucky Pierre Martini
Tracy K. Smith's Old Fashioned Tea Cakes

POEM-A-DAY


Aug 3, 2013
I could suffice for Him, I knew (643)
by Emily Dickinson
I could suffice for Him, I knew—...
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SPOTLIGHTS


Stanley Kunitz Poet
Stanley Kunitz
Born on July 29, 1905, Stanley Kunitz was the author of many poetry collections, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems, 1928-1958...
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"What Do Women Want?"

by Kim Addonizio
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A Religion of Noticing Things

by Ada Limón
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Essay
Gimmicks

by Ron Padgett
"The word "gimmick" has derogatory connotations. It often suggests something cheap, tricky, fast, without substance, even immoral. There are intelligent people who attack the use of gimmicks or devices in teaching imaginative writing..."

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