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Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee;[1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963 ) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished a…
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Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.[1][2] He is a Dis…
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Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which…
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Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one o…
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John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy B…
5 years, 2 months ago
John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"
John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.
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Mary Oliver's "The Riders"
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is ins…
5 years, 2 months ago
Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"
Michael Dana Gioia (/ˈdʒɔɪ.ə/; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist.
Gioia was born into a …
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T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.[2] Considered o…
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Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"
Elizabeth (Joan) Jennings CBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001[1]) was an English poet. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings …
5 years, 2 months ago