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	NEW POEMS, BIOS & ESSAYS

	Easy Poet Costumes Vampire Poems Linda Gregg: Five Poems Claudia Rankine in Conversation Bright Star: Life & Love of Keats Manuscript Study: Walt Whitman John Koethe on Henri Cole Carl Phillips on Brigit Pegeen Kelly Four Poems by Stephen Benét Poems about Birds Teddy Kennedy's Favorite Poems Four Poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney Poems about Sharks Hacker on Three Women Poets David Baker on Elegy and Eros


	THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

	Spotlight Poet Virgil Born the son of a farmer, Virgil was nonetheless able to establish his reputation as one of the greatest poets of his time, proving his own maxim: "Fortune favors the bold." Spotlight Poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire translated by Annette Smith and Clayton Eshleman At the end of daybreak... Spotlight Audio The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert Spotlight Essay Louise Gluck in Conversation interviewed by Dana Levin "I feel quite passionately that the degree to which I have stayed alive as a writer owes much to the intensity with which I've immersed myself in the work of people making sounds I haven't heard."


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