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Poem-A-Day

Sep 17, 2011

The Horrid Voice of Science
by Vachel Lindsay
There's machinery in the butterfly

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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

Spotlight Poet
Nazim Hikmet
After the Turkish Independence in 1924 Hikmet returned to Turkey, but was soon arrested for working on a leftist magazine. He managed to escape to Russia, where he continued to write plays and poems.

Spotlight Audio
Maroon Canoe
by Oni Buchanan

Spotlight Essay
The Difference is Spreading: on Gertrude Stein
by Marjorie Perloff
"Stein's properties, as her 'tender buttons' suggest, are domestic, everyday, female. Her language is not so much about eros as it is itself erotic...."