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Poem of the DayBy Matthew RohrerOn someone else’s estaterunning through it to avoidthe outdoor wedding there is a gravein a little copse of treesso panting  we hide out thereHow beautiful to lie downnot to be the dead ones therewhose eye sockets are filled with dirtnothing...
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poemBy Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.Â
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Poem GuideBy Julie IrigarayA hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
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Poem GuideBy Tyler Malone
Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
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Poem GuideBy CM Burroughs
There is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
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poemBy Robyn SchiffI remember a performanceof Antigone in which shethrew herself on the floor ofthe universe and picked upa piece of dust. Is thatthe particle? It startled me.Was it Scripted? Directed?Driven? I am a girl, Antigone.I have a sister. We loveeach other...
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poemBy Naomi Shihab NyeSomething has happened to my name.It now appears on cataloguesfor towels and hiking equipment,dresses spun in India,hand-colored prints of parrots and their eggs.
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poemBy Patricia Spears Jones_work like miasma_ fount of boundless energyun lifted the weekly cross carryingcandles outmore tomorrow
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