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Alexander: Praise Song for the Day
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Williams: Of History and Hope
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Angelou: On the Pulse of Morning
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Frost: The Gift Outright
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Frost: Dedication
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Week 45: Inaugural Poems
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Glück: Vespers
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Collins: Cheerios
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Kunitz: Passing Through
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Pinsky: Glass
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Hass: The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Dove: Testimonial
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Week 44: US Poets Laureate, Part II
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Sandburg: Chicago
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Sandburg: Under the Harvest Moon
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Sandburg: Fog
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Sandburg: The Answer
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Sandburg: Caboose Thoughts
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Sandburg: At a Window
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Sandburg: Accomplished Facts
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Week 43: Carl Sandburg
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Purpura: Resolution
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Merwin: To the New Year
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Shockley: on new year's eve
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Wilcox: The Year
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Clare: The Old Year
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Nye: Burning the Old Year
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Week 42: New Year
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Nesbitt: December 26
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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Church: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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Moore: A Visit from St. Nicholas
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Arthur: Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Rossetti: In the bleak midwinter
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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cummings: [little tree]
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Week 41: Christmas
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Michelson: Elijah vs. Santa
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Baker: A Hanukkah Prayer for a Time of Darkness
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Galvin: Letters Spoken in Wind
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Repp: Honorary Jew
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Piercy: Season of Skinny Candles
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Raskin: The Miracle
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Week 40: Hanukkah
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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O'Hara: Ave Maria
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Eady: Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Swenson: The James Bond Movie
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Ginsberg: The Blue Angel
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Salter: Video Blues
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Brown: Silent Film
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Week 39: Poems about Movies
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Blake: The Tyger
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Neruda: And Now You're Mine
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Auden: Funeral Blues
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Herrick: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Henley: Invictus
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Week 38: Poems in Movies
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 9
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 8
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 7
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 6
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 5
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 4
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 3
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 2
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 1
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Week 37: The Courtship of Miles Standish
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Achebe: Knowing Robs Us
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Achebe: Biafra, 1969
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Achebe: He Loves Me; He Loves Me Not
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Achebe: The Nigerian Census
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Achebe: Love Song (for Anna)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Achebe: A Mother in a Refugee Camp
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Week 36: Chinua Achebe
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Soos: The Blue Fish
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Rathburn: A Raft of Grief
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Green: for grandma
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Mayson: Our Brother
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Rozga: For a Child on Her Own
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Lang-Cassera: Quiet Moments
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Rios: Copper and Oranges
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Week 35: "State" Poets Laureate
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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Duhamel: Exquisite Politics
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Dargan: A House Divided
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Nezhukumatathil: One Vote
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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O'Neil: Old South Meeting House
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Whitman: Election Day, November, 1884
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Rios: A House Called Tomorrow
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Week 34: Election Day
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Poe: The Raven
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Poe: Lenore
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Poe: Annabel Lee
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Poe: The Bells
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Poe: Spirits of the Dead
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Poe: The Sleeper
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Week 33: Edgar Allan Poe
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Van Duyn: The Burning of Yellowstone
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Brodsky: 1 January 1965
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Strand: The Idea
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Nemerov: To David, About His Education
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Wilbur: Some Words Inside of Words
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Warren: Bearded Oaks
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Week 32: US Poets Laureate, Part I
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Glück: Afterword
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Glück: Mother and Child
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Glück: A Myth of Devotion
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Glück: Archipelago
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Glück: Elms
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Glück: Dawn
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Week 31: Louise Glück
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Liston: little people of IKEA
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Landgraf: What's Left
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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White: How to Lie to Your Mother
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Smith: Of Property
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Martinez: Consider Oedipus's Father
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Spaide: LACK
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Week 30: Wedding Anniversary
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Carruth: Bears at Raspberry Time
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Mitchell: The Bear
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Bly: The Bear and the Man
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Simonds: "There was this bearcam"
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Matthews: The Bear at the Dump
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Harte: Grizzly
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Week 29: Fat Bear Week
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Oliver: Song for Autumn
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Wilbur: The Beautiful Changes
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Shakespeare: Sonnet 73
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Gibb: For the Chipmunk in My Yard
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Johns: Fall Equinox
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Borowicz: September Tomatoes
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Week 28: Fall
|
Sep 20, 2020 |
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Silverstein: Sick
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Wagoner: My Physics Teacher
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Mora: Ode to Teachers
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Ahlberg: Please Mrs. Butler
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Hughes: Theme for English B
|
Sep 15, 2020 |
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Nemerov: September, The First Day Of School
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Week 27: School
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Hayes: Joe Hill
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Espada: Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Espaillat: “Find Work”
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Pinsky: Shirt
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Graham: The Day After Labor Day
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Millar: Labor Day
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Week 26: Labor Day
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Hadas: The End of Summer
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Trowbridge: Summer’s Almost Gone
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Housman: [When summer’s end is nighing]
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Millay: The End of Summer
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Dickinson: [As imperceptibly as Grief]
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Turbyfill: End of Summer
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Week 25: End of Summer
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Gioia: Finding a Box of Family Letters
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Lindsay: The Old Mail Coach to Belton
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Hernandez: At the Post Office
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Harrison: Mailboxes in Late Winter
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Tracy: Stamps
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Kooser: Post Office
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Week 24: Mail
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Stanton: To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Gilman: The Anti-Suffragists
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Ridge: To the Others
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Harper: Aunt Chloe’s Politics
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Fisher: Alice Paul
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Gilman: We As Women
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Week 23: Women’s Suffrage
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Frank: The Moon’s Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Handal: Holy Cosmos
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Sze: Comet Hyakutake
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Rogers: Watching the Perseids
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Scruton: Watching the Comet on Easter Evening
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Lesemann: On An Evening of Bright Meteors
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Week 22: Space Rocks
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Teasdale: Afterwards
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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Teasdale: In Florence
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Teasdale: Barter
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Teasdale: Old Love and New
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Teasdale: Leaves
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Week 21: Sara Teasdale
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Thayer: Casey at the Bat
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Smith: Devotion : Baseball
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Evans: Old Men Watching Baseball
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Blackburn: 7th Game : 1960 Series
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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McDonough: We’re Human Beings
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Dybek: Clothespins
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Week 20: Baseball
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Updike: Back From Vacation
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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Hilbert: AAA Vacation Guide
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Slater: Family Vacation
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Allen: If You Get There Before I Do
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Grotz: Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Dove: Vacation
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Week 19: Vacation
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Bancquart: [It’s Been Two Thousand Years Now]
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Jacob: Ballad of the Country Exile
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Rimbaud: A Season in Hell
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Verlaine: Clair de Lune
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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National Assembly: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Chènier: The Young Captive
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Week 18: France
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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de Góngora: Of Human Ambition
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Espiru: Catalan
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Radcliffe: Air
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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de la Fontaine: To Promise is One Thing to Keep it, Another
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Walker: For My People
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Chagall: Mine Alone is the Country in My Soul
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Week 17: Birthdays
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Harjo: Praise the Rain
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Service: The Cremation of Sam McGee
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Marriott: Prairie Graveyard
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Cogswell: New Brunswick
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Davies: Frosty Porch Blues
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Collins: Canada
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Week 16: Canada
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Rexroth: Proust’s Madeleine
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Bradstreet: To Her Father with Some Verses
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Bottoms: Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Monsour: Fifteen
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Lee: The Gift
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Heaney: Digging
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Week 15: Dads
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Sherwood: The World in the Evening
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Chitwood: Summer Job
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Youn: A Parking Lot in West Houston
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Piercy: More Than Enough
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Walcott: Bleeker Street, Summer
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Smith: Summer of the Ladybird
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Week 14: Summer
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Laviera: lady liberty
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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Brooks: Boy Breaking Glass
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Villanueva: You, If No One Else
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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McKay: America
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Espada: The Sign in My Father’s Hands
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Angelou: Caged Bird
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Week 13: Protest
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Hardy: The Last Performance
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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Hardy: How She Went to Ireland
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Hardy : The Voice
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Hardy: At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Week 12: Thomas Hardy
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May 31, 2020 |
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Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
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May 30, 2020 |
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Binyon: For the Fallen
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May 29, 2020 |
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Melville: Shiloh: A Requiem
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May 28, 2020 |
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Letts: The Spires of Oxford
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May 27, 2020 |
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McCrae: In Flanders Fields
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May 26, 2020 |
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Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
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May 25, 2020 |
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Week 11: Memorial Day
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May 24, 2020 |
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Rossetti: Up-Hill
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May 23, 2020 |
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Zapruder: Graduation Day
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May 22, 2020 |
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Mazur: Poem for Christian, My Student
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May 21, 2020 |
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Baudelaire: Be Drunk
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May 20, 2020 |
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Guest: It Couldn’t Be Done
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May 19, 2020 |
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Horton: The Graduate Leaving College
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May 18, 2020 |
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Week 10: Graduation
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May 17, 2020 |
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Kasdorf: What I Learned From My Mother
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May 16, 2020 |
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Nordhaus: A Dandelion for My Mother
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May 15, 2020 |
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Mills: How You Know
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May 14, 2020 |
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Fogel: If I Sleep While My Baby Sleeps
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May 13, 2020 |
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Lansky: On Mother’s Day
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May 12, 2020 |
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Poe: To My Mother
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May 11, 2020 |
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Week 9: Moms
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May 10, 2020 |
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Browning: My Last Duchess
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May 09, 2020 |
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Browning: Memorabilia
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May 08, 2020 |
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Browning: Among the Rocks
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May 07, 2020 |
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Browning: Love in a Life
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May 06, 2020 |
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Browning: Epilogue
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May 05, 2020 |
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Browning: My Star
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May 04, 2020 |
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Week 8: Robert Browning
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May 03, 2020 |
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Whitman: Out From Behind His Mask
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May 02, 2020 |
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Sandburg: Mask
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May 01, 2020 |
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Divakaruni: Tiger Mask Ritual
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Lindenberg: Carnival
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Thomas: O Make Me a Mask
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Dunbar: We Wear the Mask
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Week 7: Masks
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Longfellow: Paul Revere’s Ride
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Adams: The Divine Source of Liberty
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Wheatley: On Virtue
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Freneau: The American Soldier
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Bradstreet: The Author to Her Book
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Emerson: Concord Hymn
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Week 6: Patriot’s Day and Colonial America
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Grimké: The Eyes of My Regret
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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Li: Ancient Air
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Dickinson: “Hope” is the thing with feathers
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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McKay: After the Winter
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Kalidasa: Look to This Day
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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cummings: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Week 5: Poems With Friends
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Feld: Leaving Egypt
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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Rossetti: Good Friday
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Levi: Passover
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Housman: Easter Hymn
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Wilde: Easter Day
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Herbert: Easter Wings
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Week 4: Easter and Passover
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Wilbur: A Storm in April
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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Whittier: What the Birds Said
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Wood: Berkshires in April
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Millay: Spring
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Browning: Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Hughes: April Rain Song
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Week 3: April
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Longfellow:The Building of the Ship
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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Millay: Ragged Island
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Carpenter: The Tourists
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Booth: Eaton’s Boatyard
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Jewett: A Country Boy in Winter
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Robinson: Mr. Flood’s Party
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Week 2: Maine
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Yeats: The Song of Wandering Aengus
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Yeats: The Second Coming
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Yeats: Easter, 1916
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Yeats: The Lake Isle of Inisfree
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Mark Reads to You (Trailer)
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Mar 15, 2020 |