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“1971” by Donald Justice
Donald Justice was an American poet and professor. He won the Lamont Poetry Prize for his debut collection Summer Anniversaries in 1961, the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1980 for his Selected… Read More
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“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
A well-loved poem from The Bard of Democracy. … Read More
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“America” by Claude McKay
Claude McKay, a Jamaican born writer and poet, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In fact, his poetry collection Harlem Shadows (1922) is often cited as the beginning of the… Read More
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“An Excerpt from ‘American Letter'” by Archibald MacLeish
"Americans are the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created people in the history of the world.” -- Archibald MacLeish… Read More