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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about ...more

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the ...more

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I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.