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	POETRY HIGHLIGHTS FOR TEENS

	Spotlight Poet James Wright Though neither of his parents attended school beyond the eighth grade, James Wright graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College and throughout his career used poetry as a mode to discuss his political and social concerns.... Spotlight Poem somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond.... Spotlight Video The Musical Influence by Rita Dove "I want to believe—and I actually do believe—that I prefer to draw from the past more than break from the past..." Spotlight Audio Street Music by Robert Pinsky Spotlight Essay The Poet's Trade by Amy Lowell "No one expects a man to make a chair without first learning how, but there is a popular impression that the poet is born, not made..."


	ABOUT THIS RESOURCE

	This program was supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Holmdel (NJ) High School Class of 2008, and nearly 500 individual members and friends of the Academy of American Poets.