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May 13, 2008
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National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month

From Ashbery to Wordsworth, haiku to epic, anapest to terza rima


Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

—from “Eating Poetry” by Mark Strand

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Marianne Moore
American poet

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Trees.by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
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2007 Poetry Month Podcast

Poetry Collections

William Blake
Poems
Anne Bradstreet
Poems and Meditations
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Burns
Poems and Songs
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Samuel Coleridge
Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
Stephen Crane
War Is Kind
Emily Dickinson
Poems
John Donne
Songs and Sonnets
T. S. Eliot
Poems
The Waste Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems
Robert Frost
A Boy's Will
Robert Graves
Fairies and Fusiliers
A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat
John Keats
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems
John Keats
Poems 1817
Henry W. Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha
Amy Lowell
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
Men, Women, and Ghosts
Andrew Marvell
Selected Poems
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Ezra Pound
From the Chinese
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Poems of Christina Rossetti
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Complete Poetical Works
Sara Teasdale
Flame and Shadow
Rivers to the Sea
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
W. B. Yeats
Michael Robartes and The Dancer

Poet Laureates

Poetry Awards

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