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ABOUT THIS RESOURCE
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.
TEEN HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY
Spotlight Poet Philip Levine
The current Poet Laureate of the United States, Philip Levine is the winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently News of the World...
Spotlight Poem Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt
Spotlight Audio Surprised By Joy
by by William Wordsworth
read by Susan Stewart
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."
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