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Poetry
The Enduring Mystery of Walt Whitman's Meditation on Love and Sexuality
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Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems
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Exclusive: Read James Franco's New Poetry
Read Franco's poetry about
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The poet reads her landmark poem this video which includes rare images of her as a young woman
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Afaa Michael Weaver, who used to work in a Baltimore manufacturing plant, has been awarded the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
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