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Wanting Sumptuous Heavens

By Robert Bly
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A musing on unique human discontentment amidst the natural world.

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Billy Collins on How to Write Poetry

If you aren't a poet but want to get started, how would you do that?

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Billy Collins
2016
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience.

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Billy Collins (editor)
2005
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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America’s foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries.

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Billy Collins (editor), David Allen Sibley (illustrator)
2012
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The Power of Stories with Eckhart Tolle & Karen May (Google)

Eckhart Tolle and Karen May of Google discuss the power of sharing our stories in this clip.

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Eckhart Tolle
2014
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Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.

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Stephanie Y. Evans, Jana Long (foreword)
2021
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Poetry Breaks: Lucille Clifton on Where Ideas Come From

Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations.

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Lucille Clifton
2017
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Lucille Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows

Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.

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Lucille Clifton
2016
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homage to hips

Lucille Clifton reads her poem.

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Lucille Clifton
2013
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Cutting Greens: Terrance Hayes Reads Lucille Clifton’s Spare and Stunning Ode to the Kinship of All Creatures

A glorious fifteen-line celebration of “the bond of live things everywhere.”

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Maria Popova
2018
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Next: New Poems

Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. “Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond.” —The Women’s Review of Books

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Lucille Clifton
1989
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