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Poem Before the Event

A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.

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DATE TITLE POETS
06/19/2008 Listen Poetry Is Too Literary Grace Paley
06/12/2008 Listen Laugh In Linh Dinh
06/03/2008 Listen After Nature Gary Snyder
05/19/2008 Listen The Thought of No One Listening Anymore Philip Schultz
05/12/2008 Listen Who's Gonna Read This Stuff? Chase Twichell
05/01/2008 Listen Abusing Animals in the Name of Poetry Kay Ryan
04/25/2008 Listen Is That a Chicken in the Background? Tyehimba Jess
Steve Scafidi
04/18/2008 Listen What's a Man Doing in a Feminist Poem? Alicia Ostriker
Daisy Fried
04/10/2008 Listen Concrete Poetry Yusef Komunyakaa
04/01/2008 Listen Philip Whalen, Totally Philip Whalen
03/24/2008 Listen This Cold Day Mary Jo Bang
03/10/2008 Listen Activist Poetry That Won't Make You Run the Other Way Rigoberto González
02/25/2008 Listen From Charles Reznikoff to Chuck D Philip Metres
02/13/2008 Listen Valentine's with a Straight Face Li-Young Lee
02/06/2008 Listen Follow the Drinking Gourd Quraysh Ali Lansana
01/11/2008 Listen Gimme Fever Sylvia Plath
12/13/2007 Listen History vs. the Past Eavan Boland
12/06/2007 Listen Dance, Dance Revolution Cathy Park Hong
11/27/2007 Listen Excuse Me While I Offend You  
11/15/2007 Listen Robert Hass Robert Hass
10/24/2007 Listen Love in the Age of Global Warming D. A. Powell
10/11/2007 Listen “To Wear Words in the Plainest Light” Anne Stevenson
Elizabeth Bishop
10/04/2007 Listen A Straight Man's Epiphany in a Gay Bar Terrance Hayes
09/26/2007 Listen He Wasn't Always Such a Confessional Guy Troy Jollimore
Robert Lowell
09/19/2007 Listen Kay Ryan on Robert Frost Kay Ryan
Robert Frost
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Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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