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Loc: Poetry 180: Schoolboys With Dog, Winter
This non-prose piece expresses the happiness of a boy and his dog during the winter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Entrance
In this poem, the reader is encouraged to take the chance of entering into a room of the unknown.
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Loc: Poetry 180: How to Listen
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares how to listen carefully to others.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gretel
In this poem, a female fairy tale stereotype from the story "Hansel and Gretel" is examined within twelve stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Eagle Plain
A poem about the eagle is shared within six, three-line stanzas. The poem allow the reader to look at the American symbol in a different way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: End of April
A poem about a baby bird, emerging from its shell, is shared within the five, three-line stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Break
This site shares a one-stanza poem about a family that is working on a puzzle together, taking a break from a world with problems.
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Loc: Poetry 180: "Introduction to Poetry," by Billy Collins
"Introduction To Poetry" is, appropriately, the first poem in the Poetry 180 site. Collins describes how he wishes students would read poetry, as opposed to the way they are trained to read it.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Wheels
The text of Jim Daniels's poem, "Wheels," from his poetry collection, Places/Everyone.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight
This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances
This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: "Numbers" by Mary Cornish
Mary Cornish writes about the "generosity of numbers."
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord
The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
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Loc: Poetry 180: At the Un National Monument Along the Canadian Border
This poem describes the land and sky along the Canadian border.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Did I Miss Anything?
This poem shares a teacher's response to a child who wants to know if he missed anything after a day's absence from class.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Neglect
This eight-stanza poem describes a neglected fruit tree that will not bear healthy fruit.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet
This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Radio
This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day
This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
