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Paean


By Otto Leland Bohanan

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Self-Portrait in Labyrinth


By Donika Kelly

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Let America Be America Again


By Langston Hughes

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A Winter Twilight


By Angelina Weld Grimké

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Winter Remembered


By John Crowe Ransom

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Doing My Bit for Pomp and Pageantry


By John Agard

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Little Tern Colony, Kilcoole


By Jane Clarke

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the sonnet-ballad


By Gwendolyn Brooks

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America


By Solmaz Sharif

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Amour 30: Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee


By Michael Drayton

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Heaven as Olympic Spa

By Ama Codjoe

Films

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Saturday Night Blues

By Brontez Purnell

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Programs & recordings

Diaspora: An Evening of Live Poetry & Film at ICC

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News

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Winter update: 31 poets, 75 poems

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15th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

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Film screening at Film and Video Poetry Symposium

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14th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

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Our aim is to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering great poems from across places, eras, and traditions.

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«Our mission is to bring the legacy of poetry to a younger generation.»

Sample47 CATHY HALSTEAD – FOUNDER

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Poetry Ireland

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Academy of
American Poets

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Poet in the City

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92Y and the Unterberg
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