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Prayer

By Carol Ann Duffy
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A short poem about prayers that happen when praying seems impossible.

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Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems

In this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their “praise of ceaseless mutability as life’s central splendor.

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Jane Hirshfield
2024
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Saeed Jones Reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival

Saeed Jones reads "The Blue Dress in Mother's Closet" and "Boy in a Whalebone Corset" at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival.

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Saeed Jones
2016
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Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

“It felt as though every nerve in my body was popping. Imagine large strong hands slowly applying pressure while breaking a family-size package of uncooked, dry spaghetti. I was the spaghetti. Breaking down one piece at a time.

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Juanita Campbell Rasmus
2020
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