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National Poetry Month: April 21-30

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

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won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton

won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.

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Move by Alicia Ostriker

Whether it’s a turtle who drags herself
Slowly to the sandlot, where she digs
The sandy nest she was born to dig

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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry, I tell my students,
is idiosyncratic.

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The Continuous Life by Mark Strand

What of the neighborhood homes awash
In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes,

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ode to the flute by Ross Gay

A man sings
by opening his
mouth a man

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers  by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -

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Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.

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Amazing Gracious Living On 1-93 by George Starbuck

I've read the propaganda,
and I believe it now.

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