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selections from YOU ARE HERE: POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD
As part of her signature project, You Are Here, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to observe and reflect on their place in the natural world. The volume was published by Milkweed Editions in April 2024. O
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Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss Graywolf Press, March 2024 Hardcover, $26.00 When I got out of bed, the floor was speckled, completely covered in dirt. I was inside, wasn’t I? And awake? It had rained all night long, the sound of the wind whippin
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Four Poems
In the middleof spring, in the centerof the thicketa family of finches are making a slogof dinner, wormsthat, pulled outof the ground become somethinglike an elegiacwitness to hunger,the birds’ hunger, the thicket’s starvation,the yellowed grass’sthi

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