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Poem-A-Day
Jan 28, 2012 Travelling
by William Wordsworth
This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
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Spotlight Poet
Philip Larkin
Deeply anti-social and a great lover and published critic of American jazz, Larkin never married and worked as a librarian in the provincial city of Hull, England.

Spotlight Audio
Image of the Engine

by George Oppen
Read by Ann Lauterbach
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Spotlight Essay
Some Thoughts on the Integrity of the Single Line in Poetry

by Alberto Rios
"A line is a moment, and a moment is intrinsically non-narrative. That is, a moment does not move forward, not readily, not right away..."

Spotlight Book
Meddle English

by Caroline Bergvall
As Bergvall describes her work in the preface to this book: "My personal sense of linguistic belonging was not created by showing for the best English I can speak or write, but the most flexible one..."
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