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Good Morning — Midnight


By Emily Dickinson

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Kubla Khan


By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Casabianca


By Felicia Hemans

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The Tables Turned


By William Wordsworth

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Floating Island


By Dorothy Wordsworth

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The Raven


By Edgar Allan Poe

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It Would Sound Like a Dream


By Camille Rankine

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Doña Teresa and the Chicken


By Denice Frohman

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Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior


By Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

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I Sit and Sew


By Alice Dunbar Nelson

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Poem of the month

Life

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Films

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Cinderella

By Tia Laurent

Read by Cathy Halstead

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News

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October text archive update: Romantic poetry

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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 vision

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

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Poetry Ireland

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Academy of
American Poets

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Poet in the City

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92Y and the Unterberg
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