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TEEN HIGHLIGHTS FOR NOVEMBER

Spotlight Poet
Dylan Thomas
In 1934, when Dylan Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poet's Corner book prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems, to great acclaim. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier...

Spotlight Poem
Falling
by James Dickey
The states when they black out and lie there rolling    when they turn / To something transcontinental. . .

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"What Do Women Want?"
by Kim Addonizio
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Spotlight Essay
Flying Revision's Flag
by Donald Hall
"When a breakthrough comes, it always seems to me to happen in terms of the sound the poems make."

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