Their Living Names, Language Portraits, Rediscovering Rachel Sherwood, and more

January 30, 2015

Their Living Names Elegies in the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. BY AUSTIN ALLEN   Language Portraits Bob Holman on the Nuyorican, oral tradition, and how poetry led him to activism. BY ADAM PLUNKETT   Two Poets in Their Youth Rediscovering Rachel Sherwood   Reading List: January 2015 BY LINDSAY GARBUTT   POEM OF THE DAY Lines for Winter, by Mark Strand Sign up to have a poem emailed to you each day. AUDIO POEM OF THE DAY  Eyes, by William Matthews Subscribe to the audio poem of the day podcast.

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