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August 31, 2001, Edna St. Vincent Millay:
“Not
in a silver casket cool with pearls” [Sonnet XI]
(RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Man walks on the moon, 1969, July 20, 2001:
Moon
Landing (off-site
text) (site)
second poem
Mr. Rogers says goodbye, July 13, 2001:
It's
Such a Good Feeling (text)
...says goodbye on
Nightline
Independence Day, July 4, 2001, :
The
Fourth of July (site),
by Keith Ratzlaff
The Gay Pride Parade in NYC, June 24, 2001:
Despisals
(site)
(off-site
text), by Muriel
Rukeyser
Summer Solstice, June 21, 2001:
Summer
Kitchen (wmp) (text),
by Donald Hall
Bloomsday, June 16, 2001:
WNYC
dot org media page on Bloomsday.
Walt Whitman's Birthday,
May 31, 2001:
America
(text)
[history
of recording]
Theodore
Roethke's birthday, May 24, 2001:
My
Papa's Waltz (text)
Mother's Day, May 13, 2001:
The
Mother (site)
(off-site
text), by Gwendolyn
Brooks
Randall
Jarrell's birthday, May 6, 2001:
The
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (site)
(off-site
text)
Mother of the blues, Ma Rainey's birthday, April 26,
2001
Ma
Rainey, by Sterling Brown
(site)
Robert Penn Warren's birthday,
April 24, 2001:
The
Nature of a Mirror (site)
PBS
Online News Hour, April 22, 1996 (site)
artistic side of Earth Day, Robert Hass and Gary
Snyder
Seamus Heaney's birthday,
April 13, 2001
Death
of a Naturalist (text)
Robert Frost's birthday, March
26, 2001
UC
of Berkeley, May 8, 1958 Reading (site)
Michael Harper's birthday,
March 18, 2001
Rueben,
Rueben (site)
St. Patrick's Day, March 19, 2001
Philip Levine
reading Easter
1916, by W.B. Yeats (text)
A.R. Ammons dies, age 75,
February 25, 2001
Obituary
on Morning Edition (NPR) (site)
Black History Month, February 2001
Old
Lem, by Sterling
Brown (site)
Presidents' Day, February 19th, 2001
Poetry
and Power, JFK honoring Poet Robert Frost (site)
Valentines Day, February 14th, 2001
The
Quarrel, by Stanley
Kunitz (text)
Valentines Day, February 14th, 2001
First
Love, by Robert
Creeley
January 20, 2001 (in lieu of no inaugauration poem)
On
the Pulse of Morning (site
sort of) (offisite
text)
Inaugural
Poem, January 1993
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