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		<title>&#8220;I carry your heart,&#8221; E.E. Cummings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it&#8217;s you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=11&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;My First Memory (of Librarians),&#8221; Nikki Giovanni</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first memory:
A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky
wood floor
A line of green shades&#8211;banker&#8217;s lights&#8211;down the center
Heavy oak chairs that were too low or maybe I was simply
too short
For me to sit in and read
So my first book was always too big
In the foyer up four stairs a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=10&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Possum Crossing,&#8221; Nikki Giovanni</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Backing out the driveway
the car lights cast an eerie glow
in the morning fog centering
on movement in the rain slick street
Hitting brakes I anticipate a squirrel or a cat or sometimes
a little raccoon
I once braked for a blind little mole who try though he did
could not escape the cat toying with his life
Mother-to-be possum occasionally lopes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=9&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fishing on the Susquehanna in July,&#8221; Billy Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or any other river for that matter
to be perfectly honest.
Not in July or any month
have I had the pleasure&#8211;if it is a pleasure&#8211;
of fishing on the Susquehanna.
I am more likely to be found
in a quiet room like this one&#8211;
a painting of a woman on the wall,
A bowl of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=7&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Blessing the Boats&#8221;, Lucille Clifton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(at St. Mary&#8217;s)
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back                         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=6&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Birches,&#8221; Robert Frost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the line of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy&#8217;s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn&#8217;t bend them down to stay
As ice-storms do.  Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice on a sunny winter morning
After a rain.  They click upon themselves
As the breeze [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=5&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Introduction to Poetry,&#8221; Billy Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem&#8217;s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=4&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/introduction-to-poetry-billy-collins/</link>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog is all about your ideas, your thoughts, and your poetry!  You will all be given access to this blog, and you will be able to post your own poems, poems that you&#8217;ve read and enjoyed, and any other thoughts!! Remember when posting other people&#8217;s poems, you must provide copyright information.  If you need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pevnerpoetryclass.wordpress.com&blog=3643289&post=3&subd=pevnerpoetryclass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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