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• Cliff Swallows-Missouri Breaks by Debra Nystrom: American Life in Poetry #29 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Many of you have seen flocks of birds or schools of minnows acting as if they were guided by a common intelligence, turning together, stopping together.
• Speckled Trout by Ron Rash: American Life in Poetry #28 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Although this poem by North Carolina native Ron Rash may seem to be just about trout fishing, it is the first of several poems Rash has written about his cousin who died years ago.
• Children in a Field by Angela Shaw: American Life in Poetry #27 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In this lovely poem by Angela Shaw, who lives in Pennsylvania, we hear a voice of wise counsel: Let the young go, let them do as they will, and admire their grace and beauty as they pass from us into the future.
• Stable by Claudia Emerson Andrews: American Life in Poetry #26 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Descriptive poetry depends for its effects in part upon the vividness of details.
• Learn how to write a song by http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Song, from Kari
  Writing songs can be hard but hopefully with these steps you'll get some new ideas that will help you.
• The Bethlehem Nursing Home by Rodney Torreson: American Life in Poetry #25 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Emily Dickinson said that poems come at the truth at a slant.
• Cicadas at the End of Summer by Martin Walls: American Life in Poetry #24 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In this poem by New York poet Martin Walls, a common insect is described and made vivid for us through a number of fresh and engaging comparisons.
• Camping Out by Edwin Grant Burrows: American Life in Poetry #23 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In this fine poem about camping by Washington poet E.
• ADDING VIDEO by Cyber Artist
  Explanatory tutorial on how to upload a video from your Computer to AP through the host U/TUBE
• Of Some Renown by Jean L. Connor: American Life in Poetry #22 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In this short poem by Vermont writer Jean L.
• The Ashes by Karin Gottshall: American Life in Poetry #21 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  How many of us, alone at a grave or coming upon the site of some remembered event, find ourselves speaking to a friend or loved one who has died?
• The Woodpecker Keeps Returning by Jane Hirshfield: American Life in Poetry #20 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In this fascinating poem by the California poet, Jane Hirshfield, the speaker discovers that through paying attention to an event she has become part of it, has indeed become inseparable from the event and its implications.
• Updates - Friends, Featured clicks, and more by Kevin
  With this update we introduce the idea of 'friends', which are favorites that have also added you as a favorite. Also, when you click on a poem in the featured box, you'll be encouraged to comment before leaving the page. And much more, please report any bugs you might stumble across
• Discovered by Shirley Buettner: American Life in Poetry #19 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  At the beginning of the famous novel, "Remembrance of Things Past," the mere taste of a biscuit started Marcel Proust on a seven-volume remembrance.
• The Rain Poured Down by Dan Gerber: American Life in Poetry #18 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Every reader of this column has at one time felt the frightening and paralyzing powerlessness of being a small child, unable to find a way to repair the world.
• The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: American Life in Poetry #17 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Nearly all of us spend too much of our lives thinking about what has happened, or worrying about what's coming next.
• Love Like Salt by Lisel Mueller: American Life in Poetry #16 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  There are thousands upon thousands of poems about love, many of them using predictable words, predictable rhymes.
• Member of the month for June.09 by All Poetry Activity Leaders, from JustSimplyLissa
  Come see who the Member of the Month is!
• Write a Wreath by ea
  Write a wreath using this 17th century poem by the Welsh poet George Herbert as inspiration.
• The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks by Janet McCann: American Life in Poetry #15 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Many of us are collectors, attaching special meaning to the inanimate objects we acquire.
• Old Woman in a Housecoat by Georgiana Cohen: American Life in Poetry #14 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Often everyday experiences provide poets with inspiration.
• Turning Forty by Kevin Griffith: American Life in Poetry #13 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Birthdays, especially those which mark the passage of a decade, are occasions not only for celebration, but for reflection.
• Grandfather by Andrei Guruianu: American Life in Poetry #12 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Perhaps your family passes on the names of loved ones to subsequent generations.
• Peacock Display by David Wagoner: American Life in Poetry #11 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Here David Wagoner, a distinguished poet living in Washington state, vividly describes a peacock courtship, and though it's a poem about birds, haven't you seen the males of other species, including ours, look every bit as puffed up, and observed the females' hilarious indifference?
• More Than Enough by Marge Piercy: American Life in Poetry #10 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  The poet and novelist Marge Piercy has a gift for writing about nature.
• The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War by James Doyle: American Life in Poetry #9 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  In eighteen lines—one long sentence—James Doyle evokes two settings: an actual parade and a remembered one.
• Moonflowers by Karma Larsen: American Life in Poetry #8 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of poems have been written to express the grief of losing a parent.
• The Potato Eaters by Leonard E. Nathan: American Life in Poetry #7 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Leonard Nathan is a master of short poems in which two or three figures are placed on what can be seen to be a stage, as in a drama.
• Sober Song by Barton Sutter: American Life in Poetry #6 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Rhyme has a way of lightening the spirit of a poem, and in this instance, the plural, spirits, is the appropriate word choice.
• Neighbors in October by David Baker: American Life in Poetry #5 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Though many of us were taught that poems have hidden meanings that must be discovered and pried out like the meat from walnuts, a poem is not a puzzle, but an experience.

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