This classic ruled notebook is inscribed with Whitman's poetry: "This hour I tell things in confidence, / I might not tell everybody but I will tell you."
Spotlight Poet James Wright
Though neither of his parents attended school beyond the eighth grade, James Wright graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College and throughout his career used poetry as a mode to discuss his political and social concerns....
Spotlight Video The Musical Influence
by Rita Dove
"I want to believe—and I actually do believe—that I prefer to draw from the past more than break from the past..."
Spotlight Essay The Poet's Trade
by Amy Lowell
"No one expects a man to make a chair without first learning how, but there is a popular impression that the poet is born, not made..."
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This program was supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Holmdel (NJ) High School Class of 2008, and nearly 500 individual members and friends of the Academy of American Poets.
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