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  • Poetry Friday: Introduction to Poetry | Billy Collins

    Dena December 16, 2011

    Introduction to Poetry | Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a…

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