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TEEN HIGHLIGHTS FOR JANUARY

Spotlight Poet
Elizabeth Bishop
Avoiding explicit accounts of her dramatic personal life, Elizabeth Bishop wrote poems which focus with great subtlety on her impressions of the physical world.

Spotlight Poem
The Parakeets
by Alberto Blanco
translated by W. S. Merwin
They talk all day / and when it starts to get dark / they lower their voices. . .

Spotlight Audio
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
by Jack Gilbert
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Spotlight Essay
Reasons for Poetry
by William Meredith
"I too want to argue for a broader definition of poetry, a definition which will increase our sense of the multitudes that poetry contains..."

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