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Blind Boone’s Vision


By Tyehimba Jess

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Dover Beach


By Matthew Arnold

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Incantation


By Elise Paschen

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Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog


By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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I dwell in Possibility—


By Emily Dickinson

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I Remember the Carrots


By Ada Limón

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Extraction


By Allison Joseph

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September 1, 1939


By W. H. Auden

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Ode to Ethiopia


By Paul Laurence Dunbar

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The Lifting of the Mist


By E. Pauline Johnson

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Dangerous Things

By Tiphanie Yanique

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Some Waynes

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

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Nine Words We Share films added

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June text archive update

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New films for May

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website launches

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Our aim is to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering great poems from across places, eras, and traditions.

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«Our mission is to bring the legacy of poetry to a younger generation»

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