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         <title><![CDATA[July 4th Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A selection of classic poems about America for Independence Day, by William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg &amp; Stephen Vincent Ben&#233;t.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Thomas Nashe, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Amy Lowell &amp; Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;A Nation&#039;s Strength&#039; by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Nation's Strength' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War and Remembrance]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, John McCrae, Carl Sandburg, Wilfrid Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats &amp; Thomas McGrath.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;I Hear America Singing&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['I Hear America Singing' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson &amp; Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;America, A Prophecy&#039; (Preludium) by William Blake (1793)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['America, A Prophecy' (Preludium) by William Blake (1793)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spring Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems for spring, including classics by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, Thomas Carew, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence &amp; Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, by Su Tung-p&#146;o, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Guest, Rudyard Kipling, Gerard Manley Hopkins &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Locate the Text of a Poem]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline of how to find the text of a poem on the Net when you can only remember one line.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;Concord Hymn&#039; by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Concord Hymn' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;Good Night&#039; by Carl Sandburg (1920)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Good Night' by Carl Sandburg (1920)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic love poems by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An anthology of poems for peace, gathered at About Poetry during the war in Iraq, as the necessary successor to our Poems After the Attack collection of 9.11.01 poems.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems: The Witches&#039; Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Witches' Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;Paul Revere&#039;s Ride&#039; by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bllongfellowjuly4th.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Paul Revere's Ride' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sonnet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The sonnet defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sonnets.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;A something in a summer&#039;s day&#039; (#122) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A something in a summer's day' (#122) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get Started Submitting]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/cs/zinesanthologies/ht/howsubmitpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline to help you manage the process of submitting your poems for publication in print.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;War Is Kind&#039; by Stephen Crane (1899)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['War Is Kind' by Stephen Crane (1899)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems After the Attack]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/poemsafterattac.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[An anthology of poems written during the 'War on Terrorism' after the September 11, 2001 attack on America, from poets around the Net &amp; in the About Poetry Forum.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Guide to &quot;The Second Coming&quot;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Butler Yeats&#146; poem &#147;The Second Coming&#148; (1920).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Yeats Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by William Butler Yeats, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       Index of Poems - Alphabetical by Poet Name     ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Index by poet's name of the poems published at the About Poetry Web site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[HipHop, PerfPo, SpokenWd, Slam]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticspoetryanalysis/a/emandefinitions.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Definitions of 'open mic,' 'poetry slam,' 'spoken word,' 'performance poetry,' 'poetry,' 'hiphop' &amp; 'rap' from Eman, 16-year-old poet &amp; host of two weekly open mics. 'If you&#146;re looking for the definitions of the New Poetry from the younger generation, she&#146;s the one to ask.']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Guide to Blake&#039;s &quot;The Tyger&quot;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/tygerguide.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Blake's poem &quot;The Tyger&quot; from Songs of Experience (1794).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Sweet Summer&#039; by Wayne Jarus]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Sweet Summer' by Wayne Jarus]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put Together a Manuscript]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetrybooks/ht/howmanuscript.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline to help you gather your poems in manuscript form for submission to publishers or publication contests, transforming your sheaf of assorted poems into a book manuscript.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poets/a/uslaureates.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A Net-annotated list of all the poets who have served the Library of Congress as Consultant (the old title) or Poet Laureate Consultant (the new title), linked to biographies and reference sites.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Summer&#039; by John Clare (1865)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Summer&#039; by Amy Lowell (1912)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Collections of Love Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryaroundtheworld/tp/lovepoetry.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Anthologies and single poet collections of love poetry, classic and contemporary, from ancient and modern cultures all over the world, selected by your guides.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&quot;The Road Not Taken&quot; Guide]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Notes on form and content, commentary and annotations on Robert Frost's beloved but &quot;tricky&quot; poem, &quot;The Road Not Taken&quot; (published in his 1920 collection, Mountain Interval).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Blow, blow thou winter wind&#039; from As You Like It by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Blow, blow thou winter wind' from As You Like It by William Shakespeare]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Hot Summer Nights&#039; by Mary Hamrick]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Hot Summer Nights' by Mary Hamrick: hot summer nights marsh rabbit summer poems music flows light pulse]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;America, A Prophecy&#039; (A Prophecy) by William Blake (1793)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#147;The World Is Too Much With Us&#148; by William Wordsworth (1806)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Sumer Is Icumen In&#039; (traditional English round, c. 1250)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Sumer Is Icumen In' (traditional English round, c. 1250)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;St. Crispin&#039;s Day speech,&#039; from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshakespearewar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['St. Crispin's Day speech,' from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;The Schoolboy&#039; by William Blake (from Songs of Experience, 1794)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blblakesummer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Schoolboy' by William Blake (from Songs of Experience, 1794)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Independence Day Poems: &#039;The New Colossus&#039; by Emma Lazarus (1883)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bllazarusjuly4th.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The New Colossus' by Emma Lazarus (1883)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshakespearesonnet116.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Dust of Snow&#039; and &#039;Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening&#039; by Robert Frost]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blfrostwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Dust of Snow' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost (1923)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Second Coming&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blyeatssecondcoming.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats (1920)]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/halloweenpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic Halloween poems, including a selection from Shakespeare's Macbeth, the traditional ballad 'Tam Lin' &amp; poems by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Christina Rossetti.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Fair Summer Droops&#039; from Summer&#039;s Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blnashesummer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Fair Summer Droops' from Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;The Barefoot Boy&#039; by John Greenleaf Whittier (1855)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwhittiersummer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Barefoot Boy' by John Greenleaf Whittier (1855)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Road Not Taken&#039; by Robert Frost]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blfrostroad.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost (1920)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Poems by Robert Burns]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/burnspoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Robert Burns, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Frost Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/frostpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Robert Frost, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;When You Are Old&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blyeatswhenyou.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['When You Are Old' by William Butler Yeats (1893)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;To My Dear and Loving Husband&#039; by Anne Bradstreet (1678)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blbradstreetlove.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['To My Dear and Loving Husband' by Anne Bradstreet (1678)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 14 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blebbrowninglove1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 14 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[On Poems in Competition]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/onlinecontests/a/heintzcontests.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our friend Kurt Heintz has some sage advice for the poet who asked this question: 'What is the reliability of the hundreds of poetry contests being run on the Net? Is it prudent to submit manuscripts to them?']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Only a Dad&#039; by Edgar A. Guest (1916)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blguestonlyadad.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Only a Dad' by Edgar A. Guest (1916)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Song of Myself&#039; by Walt Whitman]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwhitmansong.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, 1900)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Aftermath&#039; by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blsassoonwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Aftermath' by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Lines Written in Early Spring&#039; by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwordsworthspring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Lines Written in Early Spring' by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acrostic Poem]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/acrostic.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Acrostic poem defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic acrostic poems.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Glossary of Poetic Forms]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/a/formsglossary.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Traditional poetic forms briefly defined.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Worst Poem of All Time]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/a/mcgonagall.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[We invite you to partake in what we consider the absolute freefall of the bottomless barrel, the worst poem of all time: William Topaz McGonagall&#146;s &#147;The Tay Bridge Disaster.&#148;]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;In Time of &#039;The Breaking of Nations&#039;&#039; &amp; &#039;The Man He Killed&#039; by Thomas Hardy (1915)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blhardywar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'' & 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy (1915)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Just After Rain&#039; by Ross Clark]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blclarksummer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[summer poems ross clark distant city frontyard helvetica font: 'Just After Rain' by Ross Clark]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/poe.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Edgar Allan Poe, American Romantic poet, balladeer, journalist and inventor of the modern detective story and horror tale.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2009 Archive     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2009ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2009.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Drawing the Line: Ed Sanders&#039; 1968 is Poetry Book of the Year (1997)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa082697.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This is 1997, not the most amazing year of the century. . . . But we have he who has refused to be burnt out, torch-bearer Ed Sanders, providing us with a way forward through the past.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Spring&#039; (song from Love&#039;s Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshakespearespring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Spring' (song from Love's Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Not to Keep&#039; by Robert Frost (1917)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blfrostwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Not to Keep' by Robert Frost (1917)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;To My Mother&#039; by Christina Rossetti (1842)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettimother1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['To My Mother' by Christina Rossetti (1842): christina rossetti great happiness sweet flowers poems for mothers helvetica font]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poetry@About.com - Poetry Channel #53]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blpch53.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[IN THIS EPISODE: Academy of American Poets, Bryce Milligan, The Buk Book, bell hooks, Chicago Nationals, Myth of the Big Break, Lollapalooza Reunion, Shappy, Wammo, Beth Lisick, Justin Chin, Mouth Almighty Folds, Seattle Poetry Festival, 1999 Calendar of Events, Taos Poetry Circus, Poetry Nation. . . with your host Juliette Torrez, from your About.com Guides, Bob Holman and Margery Snyder.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Give a Good Reading]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/livepoetry/ht/howgivereading.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline to prepare yourself for giving a polished, professional reading of your poetry &#151; adapted from Gary Mex Glazner&#146;s book, How To Make a Living as a Poet.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A Prayer in Spring&#039; by Robert Frost (1915)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blfrostspring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['A Prayer in Spring' by Robert Frost (1915): prayer in spring mud time spring poems perfect trees frost spring]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;A Poet to His Beloved&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1899)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blyeatslove2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['A Poet to His Beloved' by William Butler Yeats (1899)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey&#039; by William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwordsworthtinternabbey.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Waka Waka Bang Splat! The World&#039;s First Internet Special-Characters Poem]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryplay/l/blwakawaka.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A poem created entirely of special characters -- it can only be properly appreciated by reading it out loud.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T10:53:34Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Haiku]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/haiku.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Haiku defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;Mother to Son&#039; by Langston Hughes (1922)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blhughesmother.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Mother to Son' by Langston Hughes (1922): mother to son by langston hughes life for me aint been no crystal stair poet laureate carpet on the floor mother to son]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter: A Dirge&#039; by Robert Burns (1781)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blburnswinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Winter: A Dirge' by Robert Burns (1781)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;This was a Poet&#039; (#448) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['This was a Poet' (#448) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Wordsworth Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/wordsworthpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by William Wordsworth, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Iron&#039; (1916) &amp; &#039;Grass&#039; (1918) by Carl Sandburg]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blsandburgwar.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Father&#039; by Edgar A. Guest (1909)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Father' by Edgar A. Guest (1909)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Tay Bridge Disaster&#039; by William Topaz McGonagall]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blmcgonagalltay.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Tay Bridge Disaster' by William Topaz McGonagall (1879)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spring Poems: &#039;Spring, the Sweet Spring&#039; from Summer&#039;s Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blnashespring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Spring, the Sweet Spring' from Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1899)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blyeatslove1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' by William Butler Yeats (1899)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Now Winter Nights Enlarge&#039; by Thomas Campion]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Now Winter Nights Enlarge' by Thomas Campion]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 98 - 'From you have I been absent in the spring' by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Nefarious War&#039; by Li Po (c. 750)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Nefarious War,' by Li Po (c. 750)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2006 Archive     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2006ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2006.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;The Little Boy Lost&#039; by William Blake (1791)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Little Boy Lost' by William Blake (from Songs of Innocence, 1791)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Memorize a Poem]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Anecdote for Fathers&#039; by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Anecdote for Fathers' by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Blake]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/18thcpoets/p/blake.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on William Blake, visionary poet and artist who created his own mythology, wrote epics and children's rhymes, and made illustrated books that are admired icons centuries after his death.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Concrete Poetry/VisPo]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/concretepoetry.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems in which the art is visual, and the typographical arrangement is as much a part of the poem's meaning as other more traditional poetic techniques -- including examples by Rinaldo Rasa, Alan Sondheim, Tree Riesener, and an anonymous Web poet.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2007 Archive     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2007ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2007.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2004 Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2004.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Kay Ryan]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/contemporarypoets/p/kayryan.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Kay Ryan, American outsider poet named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2008.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;There&#039;s a certain slant of light&#039; (#258) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bldickinsonwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['There's a certain slant of light' (#258) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;Love&#039; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Love' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;On Being Asked for a War Poem&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1928)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blyeatswar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['On Being Asked for a War Poem' by William Butler Yeats (1928)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on British Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), whose theory of poetry began the Romantic movement in English poetry at the end of the 18th century, and whose poems immortalize the sublime landscapes of his beloved Lake District.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2005 Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2005ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2005.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;A Poem Against War&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa030403g.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Karen Karpowich's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Look Down, Fair Moon&#039; &amp; &#039;When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom&#039;d&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwhitmanwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Look Down, Fair Moon' & 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dirge for Two Veterans&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Dirge for Two Veterans' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2008 Archive     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2008ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2008.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Epithalamion&#039; by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Epithalamion' by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;The Passionate Shepherd to His Love&#039; by Christopher Marlowe (1598)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' by Christopher Marlowe (1598)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Blizzard&#039; &amp; &#039;Sweet and Bitter&#039; by Barbara Reiher-Meyers]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blreihermeyerswinter.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Dickinson Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Emily Dickinson, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;I Have a Rendezvous with Death&#039; by Alan Seeger (1917)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['I Have a Rendezvous with Death' by Alan Seeger (1917)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;If&#039; by Rudyard Kipling (1910)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dulce et Decorum Est&#039; by Wilfrid Owen (1917)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfrid Owen (1917)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sestina]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The sestina defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sestinas.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Lake Isle of Innisfree&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jupiter Hammon]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/18thcpoets/a/hammon.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A profile of Jupiter Hammon, actually the first African-American poet whose work was published, despite the often repeated claim that it was Phillis Wheatley, by George Wallace]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2009 Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the winning poems in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2009, posted at About Poetry.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2003 Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2003.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Election Day]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A selection of classic American poems for Election Day, by Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Vachel Lindsay &amp; William Carlos Williams, and a contemporary post-election blues by Jim Finnegan.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;A Prayer for My Daughter&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Prayer for My Daughter' by William Butler Yeats (1921)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Poetry Currents]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/blpcurrLA.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: E.B. Browning Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Stolen Child&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Stolen Child' by William Butler Yeats (1889)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/coleridge.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Gothic/Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), with Wordsworth a founder of the Romantic movement in poetry, noted critic and philosopher whose influence can be seen in many succeeding generations of poets.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;To My Mother&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['To My Mother' by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Joseph Brodsky &amp; the American Poetry Literacy Project - POETRY - 07/29/97]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Poet Is Gone, The Poems Live On: Now there are poems on busses and in the subways, readings are proliferating, poetry slams are on the Internet, and spoken word stores are selling nothing but. . . . , from your About.com Guides, Bob Holman and Margery Snyder.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s Wrong with Contests]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/onlinecontests/a/alpaughcontests.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[David Alpaugh, who has both run and won a poetry book contest himself, investigates what's wrong with the whole business of selecting poetry books for publication by holding a competition: Fraud is not the problem... why there's a boom in poetry contests...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Poe Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Spring Quiet&#039; by Christina Rossetti (1847)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Spring Quiet' by Christina Rossetti (1847)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#147;Ode: Intimations of Immortality&#148; by William Wordsworth (1807)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[First Place Winner, June 2009 InterBoard Poetry Competition]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['you think you've seen everything' by Justin Hyde of Salty Dreams]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;On the Birth of His Son&#039; by Su Tung-p&#039;o (c. 1070)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['On the Birth of His Son' by Su Tung-p'o (c. 1070)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ghazal]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The ghazal defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to read examples of ghazals written in English.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Mother and Poet&#039; by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Mic Definition]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Bob Holman defines &amp; explains the phenomenon of the poetry open mic, &quot;a meta-metaphor for freedom, a place where your art can be presented to the public at large,&quot; a place where &quot;all humans are created equal &#150; so long as you don&#146;t go over the time limit!&quot;]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Keats Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;In Flanders Fields&#039; by John McCrae (1915)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/dickinson.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Emily Dickinson, reclusive 19th century poet who became known as the 'Belle of Amherst' and an iconic influence on American poetry after the posthumous publication of her work.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems After the Attack: &#039;If Only&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A poem written after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America by Adam.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;It Was So Cold&#039; by Whitman McGowan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['It Was So Cold' by Whitman McGowan]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems: &#039;Halloween&#039; by Robert Burns]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Halloween' by Robert Burns (1785)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A little madness in the Spring&#039; (#1333) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A little madness in the Spring' (#1333) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fibonacci Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/a/fibonaccipoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[All you need to know about Fibonacci poems, a new math-based poetic form that is proliferating on the Internet, by Georgia Luna Smith Faust.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poetry - HowTos]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/cs/ht.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[An index of HowTos for the Poetry guide site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A light exists in spring&#039; (#812) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A light exists in spring' (#812) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Limerick]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The limerick defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;The Child Is Father To the Man&#039; by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Child Is Father To the Man' by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Fragmentary Blue&#039; by Robert Frost (1920)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Fragmentary Blue' by Robert Frost (1920)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;We Are Seven&#039; by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;The Charge of the Light Brigade&#039; by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bltennysonwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Robert Frost]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/20thcenturypoets/p/frost.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Robert Frost, celebrated American poet whose work is rooted in New England farm life, combining a modernist sensibility and sense of language in traditional verse forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;On the Sonnet&#039; by John Keats]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Cottonwood Summer&#039; by Jack Peachum]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blpeachumsummer1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[old manse sometime poet summer poems clarksville virginia peachum: 'Cottonwood Summer' by Jack Peachum]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;The Spring&#039; by Thomas Carew (1640)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems for the fall season, including classics by William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;If Peace Should Die&#039;]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;The Flower Garden&#039; by Wayne Jarus]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;Before the Birth of One of Her Children&#039; by Anne Bradstreet (1678)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems: &#039;Julep Season&#039; by Jack Peachum]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Bicycle Poem&#039; by Noelle Kocot-Tomblin]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Poetry Guide Bob Holman encountered this poem by chance, after the reading... like that, unfurling from her mouth, a sparkling piece of the divine.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)&#039; by Herman Melville (1866)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A Spring View&#039; by Tu Fu (c. 750)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Villanelle]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;This Winter&#039; by Charles Mariano]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As the nation's foremost Slam poet, she speaks the voices of those who have not been heard. . . . As a journalist, Patricia Smith is a great poet -- she gets at the truth under the skin, from your About.com guides, Bob Holman & Margery Snyder.]]></description>
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