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Instructions on Not Giving Up


By Ada Limón

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To Autumn


By John Keats

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Doña Teresa and the Chicken


By Denice Frohman

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Nobody Riding the Roads Today


By June Jordan

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The World as Meditation


By Wallace Stevens

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Harvest Time


By E. Pauline Johnson

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State-Building


By Will Harris

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from "Pale Fire"


By Vladimir Nabokov

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Haunt


By Maya Phillips

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Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves

By William Stanley Braithwaite

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This Is Just to Say (the Gays Will Steal Your Fruit)

By Dawn Watson

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Ghosts from the Recent Past: Poem Films

A collaboration with IMMA and Poetry Ireland, 7/20–9/26

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August update: 60 poems by 23 poets

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Daydreams poetry installation at Tippet Rise

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April text archive update: 54 new poems

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Brinkerhoff Poetry films at St. Patrick's Festival 2021

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January text archive update: poems from 28 poets

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