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I wrote this poem as part of a collaboration I did in spring of 2008 with the painter Chris Uphues. Chris and I met at a bar after a reading I had given, and he told me he was a painter. I had a feeling he would be good. ... In some of the poems, like this one, I take elements of the painting and use them in the poem,
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Langston Hughes wrote this poem for Robert F. Williams as a New Years greeting and published it in The Panther and the Lash (1967). Nina Simone set it to music and recorded it [mp3] on 'Nuff Said (1968). Though it ruins the poetry, change "Vietnam" to "Iraq," and the line about taxes, and you've got a song for Winston ...
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In May 2005 the doors of the Whitechapel Library, the street-corner university of so many East End Jewish writers and artists, closed for the last time. Bernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that ... Bernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that "The door of the library was the door into me." Michael Kustow commemorated...
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Cut off from the world, even in parts of his own home, Aitzaz Ahsan did what many of his compatriots do in times of personal and political crisis: He wrote a poem. Months of house arrest had left ... The poem was a private "cry against the system," Ahsan said, one man's lament on "the loneliness of being a dreamer in a...
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The original first stanza of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" may hold interest less as a literary artifact than as a puzzling contradiction of Robert Frost's explanation that he wrote the poem "about the snowy evening and the li... ... The small lie about the poem's composition, ... Frost wrote through his influences—Hardy,
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Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed. ... Sarah Josepha Hale author and journalist who wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830 is from Newport, New Hampshire. ...
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Cook, Albert S., ed., The Christ of Cynewulf: a Poem in Three Parts: the Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgement, second edition (Boston, 1909) Reprinted (Hamden, Connecticut, 1964). It is now generally believed that Cynewulf wrote only Christ II.
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