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Off the Page, Poetry Gets Personal

By presenting a poem in a new medium, the poet can bend a reader’s expectations. Readers identify with poems when they feel the poet has spoken directly to them.

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“The Red Balloon”

At the beach one afternoon a child bought a red balloon. He held it tightly in his hand as he trod along the sand. The balloon stared down in dismay.

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“Ultraviolet Radiation in San Juan, Puerto Rico” by Peter Ricci

When you emerge from airport in San Juan, it would be inaccurate to say the heat hits you in the face; that would imply some unexpected quality to the proceedings.

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Little Peter Learns to Write

Free writing always presented the one opportunity to step beyond the grade school universe of crayons, cubbies, and kick ball and express how I really felt.

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