PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784: Early African-American Poet SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about someone important i

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Depending on where you are right now, it might be drizzly. It might be chilly. There might even be snow here and there. But fear not, no matter the weather, it is almost April. And you know what that means, it's almost time for N

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Thisis your castle? said Jack. Basho smiled. In my heart, my humble cottage isgrander than all the castles of the samurai, heexplained. And my banana tree is more beautiful tome than all the beauty of the Imperial Garden.Jack and Annie stared at the

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NOEL KING, HOST: There is no shortage of classic holiday literature. Think The Night Before Christmas, A Christmas Carol, The Polar Express. Well, MORNING EDITION listeners, get ready to add another work to the canon. Here's our co-host, Rachel Marti

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AS IT IS 2013-06-22 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Gets Second Term Hello again, and welcome back for more As It Is. Im June Simms with VOA Learning English. Today, we hear about Natasha Tretheways appointment to a second term as Poet Laureate

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I'VE SAVED THE SUMMER I've saved the summer And I give it all to you To hold on winter mornings When the snow is new. I've saved some sunlight If you should ever need A place away from darkness Where your mind can feed. And for myself I've kept your

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A spring morning A I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds-But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken. (by Meng Haoran ) B Hungrily the cat consumes the fish; Hu

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Walt Whitman, one of America's greatest poets. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A drawing of Walt Whitman In the Nineteenth Centu

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 26 September 2009 Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne and Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Jane Campion's Bright Star The passionate romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne - one of English literature's greatest (and perhaps le

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, and I hope you are as excited about this as I am, poetry. April is Poetry Month. And on this program, we like to go big on poetry by going small, which is to say we invite your original submissions of Twitter-length poems. A

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'Just As True': Johnny Cash's Poems Set To Music For New Album SCOTT DETROW, HOST: When Johnny Cash died almost 15 years ago, he left behind a trove of unpublished poems, handwritten letters and other writing. Now an all-star group of musicians has s

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've noticed that our Twitter hashtag - #nprpoetry - has attracted some young poets. And we know that teachers around the country sometimes use our Twitter callout to get th

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we're going to get some more of your Twitter poetry submissions. All this month, we're inviting you to send us your original poems of 140 characters or less. This week - quite a few have had what I suppose you could call poli

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a changing of the guard on Capitol Hill coming this summer. And no, we are not talking about a new senator or congressperson. We are talking about the new poet laureate of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tr

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Alice Walker has a new collection of poems, nearly 70, about issues of the world and in her own backyard. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Color Purple, The Temple Of My Familiar and many other belov

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The indelible images of Caroline Kennedy childhood,the little girl in the white house,hiding under her father's death,sitting beside her mother in bed.And if you look closely,there is often something else,books,many things,feel good poetry. My mother

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Hollie McNish is a British poet and a spoken word artist whose videos have millions of views on YouTube, like this one, entitled Embarrassed, about all the flak that McNish got for breastfeeding her daughter in public. (SOU

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(SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S SKATING) MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now, 'tis the gift-giving season, but don't panic. We're here to help because what makes a better gift than a book? And why not try giving poetry this year? We are joined by our po

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Magical Negro - that's the trope in books or movies where a black character appears in a plot solely to help a white character and then finishes. The Magical Negro is one-dimensional. The Magical Negro is cheery - think Will

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The beloved poet Mary Oliver has died. During her lifetime, Oliver accomplished something few poets ever do. She not only made a living writing poetry. She was also a bestseller. Her poems often explore the link between nature and

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