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A poem I didn’t know by a poet I love for the first #PoemADayJuly

I’m planning an American lit class, so I notice Brooks’s play with Dickinson and Whitman and Frost

Alliteration deployed exactingly. “Graves grow no green you can use”— direct, profound, asking us to hear the never-written “grief”
"Sit down. Inhale. Exhale."

#PoemADayJuly begins today!

Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)

Let's talk poetry. Together.
July 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A year ago my memoir “It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me” became a New York Times Bestseller.

It’s now out in paperback. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
March 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This week, Edward Martin, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown Law School threatening to investigate the school if it did not scrub its policies and curriculum of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Here is the Dean's response....
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Intelligent country rock at its finest. BJ Barham deserves to be heard. Live, there are few better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNy1...
American Aquarium - All I Needed (Live from the Ryman)
American Aquarium performing "All I Needed" at The Ryman in Nashville, TNListen to "All I Needed" from the new album Chicamacomico here - https://orcd.co/chi...
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April 17, 2024 at 8:05 PM