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Thursday, April 26, 2012
National Poetry Month— Nikki Giovanni 'Balances'
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Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee in a close knit family. She was inspired by her grandmother, a natural sto...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Chicago Nine Play their First National League Game
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The First Champions of the National League, 1876. On April 25, 1876 the Chicago professional baseball club known then as the White Sto...
National Poetry Month—John Lennon—Two Poems
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An illustration from John Lennon's In His Own Write . The other day the subject of poems by people famous for other stuff popped...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
National Poetry Month—Dr. Seuss "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!"—an excerpt
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Note: This was adapted from a post first put up on March 2, 2010. On March 2, 1904 Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield,...
Monday, April 23, 2012
National Poetry Month—William Shakespeare "From you have I been absent in the spring" Sonnet 98
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A portrait by Gerard Soest who died in 1588 believed by some to be Shakespeare as a young actor. For those who have complained tha...
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