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Today’s Poem: Blue Girls

It is all so frail

May 1 • Sally Thomas

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

With Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Apr 30 • Joseph Bottum

Today’s Poem: Epigram on Rough Roads

Robert Burns makes a pun

Apr 29 • Joseph Bottum

Today’s Poem: After the Winter

Claude McKay and the island of endless summer

Apr 28 • Sally Thomas

Today’s Poem: Butchering

Rhina Espaillat’s mother’s mother

Apr 27 • Joseph Bottum

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