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• Poems to Read

  a New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

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  "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. / Love is so short, forgetting is so long." -- Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines), by Pablo Neruda.

• Pauline Johnson

  Selected Poetry and Prose

  Johnson, E. Pauline, 1861-1913

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  "It is dark in the Lost Lagoon, / And gone are the depths of haunting blue, / The grouping gulls, and the old canoe, / The singing firs, and the dusk and–you, / And gone is the golden moon." -- From The Lost Lagoon.

• Poems to See by

  a Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry

  Peters, Julian

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  "The caged bird sings / with a fearful trill  / of things unknown / but longed for still / and his tune is heard / on the distant hill / for the caged bird / sings of freedom." -- Caged bird, by Maya Angelou.

• The Essential Emily Dickinson

  Poems

  Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

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  "Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness – And Latitude of Home."

• Elegy for Opportunity

  Poems

  Lim, Natalie

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  "you are busy telling me / about the dinosaurs at the museum… / deep in its DNA, / in its heart of giant hearts, / it knew—it must have— / that it was born to fly" -- from Fun Facts.

• Procession

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  "you are only here / to learn from those who came before / and make space / for those who come after"

• Amour fou

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• Orange, A Syllable

  Sze, Gillian

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  “What is out there? I think I have forgotten. My world thicks down / to the sweetness in each fold of laundry."

• Writing Poetry

  Sweeney, Matthew, 1952-

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• I Would Like to Say Thank You

  Poems

  Dandurand, Joseph A.

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  "and I know that I am who I am and to you abusers / you cannot have me / you cannot destroy me / I can do that all be myself thank you."

• Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens

  on Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically

  Rekdal, Paisley

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• Rumi

  Unseen Poems

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

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  “The minute I heard my first love story, / I started looking for you, not knowing / how blind that was. / Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. / They’re in each other all along.”

• The World After Rain

  Anne's Poem

  Lubrin, Canisia, 1984-

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  "time, disclose to the world: / the forecast of our noontime births outdoors"

• Unravel

  Poems

  Oloruntoba, Tolu, 1985 -

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  "if I know the reason, / or the consequence of their lives; / if I know the spin-direction / of their dwindling cosmos, / I have not told them. / I have not revealed myself."

• Something for the Dark

  Lundy, Randy, 1967-

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  "Memory is an uncomfortable skin"

• A Greeting of the Spirit

  Selected Poetry of John Keats With Commentaries

  Keats, John, 1795-1821

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  "There was a naughty boy / And a naughty boy was he, / For nothing would he do / But scribble poetry"

• A Quiet Passion

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• The Idea of An Entire Life

  Poems

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  "if i have a name / let it be the sound his lips make"

• Wellwater

  Poems

  Solie, Karen, 1966-

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  "In Wildcat Canyon live the laurels. / No rain in two months and nine days.  / Like girls do, the laurels grow / from the soil of a deep reserve."

• Dearly

  New Poems

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  "It's late, it's very late; / too late for dancing. / Still, sing what you can. / Turn up the light: sing on, / sing: On."