3 (Three) Poems by... Poetry Discussion Group Archive, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

October 9, 2008
Emily Dickinson

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3 Poems by Emily Dickinson

November 13, 2008
e.e. cummings

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3 Poems by ee.cummings

"sonnet entitled how to run the world"
"maggie and milly and molly and may"
"pity this busy monster, manunkind,"

January 8, 2009
Mary Oliver

Books by Mary Oliver
Poetry Foundation: Mary Oliver
Poets.org: Mary Oliver

February 12, 2009
Billy Collins

Books by Billy Collins
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3 Poems by Billy Collins

"The Afterlife"
"First Reader"
"Workshop"

Thursday, March 12, 2009
3 Poems about…Time

"Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden
Read the poem
Books by W.H. Auden

"For You, Friend" by Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser's Website
Books by Ted Kooser

"anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E. E. Cummings
Read the poem at Poets.org
Read the Poem at the Poetry Foundation
Books by E.E. Cummings

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sharon Olds

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3 Poems by Sharon Olds

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Robert Frost

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3 Poemsby Robert Frost

"Acquainted With the Night"
"Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"
"Design"

June 11, 2009
Audre Lorde

Books by Audre Lorde
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Modern American Poetry: Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Contemporary Authors

September 10, 2009
Anne Sexton

Books by Anne Sexton
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AuthorSheets: Anne Sexton

October 8, 2009
W.S. Merwin

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3 Poems by W.S. Merwin

For the Anniversary of My Death
To the Insects
After the Alphabets

November 12, 2009
James Wright

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3 Poems by James Wright

January 14, 2010
Yusef Komunyakaa

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3 Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

"Facing It" from the collection Dien Cai Dau, 1988 (Audio Version)
"The Towers" from the collection Warhorses, 2008
"My Father's Love Letters" from the collection Magic City, 1992

March 11, 2010
Jorie Graham

Books by Jorie Graham
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3 Poems by Jorie Graham

"What Is Called Thinking: After Trakl" from Region of Unlikeness (The subtitle, which Graham dropped after its initial publication, refers to poet George Trakl.)
"I Watched a Snake" from Erosion
"Mind" from Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

April 8, 2010
Elizabeth Bishop

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3 Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

May 13, 2010
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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June 10, 2010
Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh but moved to New Jersey.

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3 Poems by Gerald Stern

Behaving Like a Jew (within the article)
Lucky Life
Kissing Stieglitz Goodbye

September 9, 2010
Nikki Giovanni

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Four Poems by Nikki Giovanni

"Nikki-Rosa"
"Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)"
"Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day"
"Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy"

October 14, 2010
Robinson Jeffers

Books by Robinson Jeffers
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The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Although closely associated with Carmel, California, where he lived from 1914 until his death in 1962, Jeffers was born in Pittsburgh.

3+1 Poems by Robinson Jeffers

November 11, 2010
3 Poems on Photography
Poetry Discussion Group: Library & Museum Collaboration

In this collaboration between the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, we will discuss three poems about or inspired by photography. Join us for this special session related to the exhibition "On Reading" by André Kertész. We'll begin with a 15-minute gallery talk highlighting visual and literary connections, then converse with fellow readers and library staff in a casual museum setting.

January 13, 2011
Alicia Ostriker (1937-)

Books by Alicia Ostriker
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker's website

Three Poesm by Alicia Ostriker

"In the Dust" from The Mother/Child Papers, 1980
(Also collected in The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998).
"Daffodils, from No Heaven, 2005.
The poem refers to and includes epigraphs from William Wordsworth and Jack Spicer. Here is the Wordsworth poem, also called Daffodils. The Jack Spicer epigraph quotes part 3 of the poem "Love Poems."
"Mastectomy" from The Crack in Everything, 1996.
This poem is part 4 of a 12-part sequence, but we'll be focusing on part 4, "Mastectomy," for the discussion.

February 10, 2011
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)

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3 Poems + 1

Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Words

March 10, 2011
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)

Books by Lucille Clifton
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Poetry Foundation: Interview
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3 Poems

"i went to the valley" from Good News about the Earth, 1972
"sorrows" from Voices, 2008
"Dream of Foxes" from The Terrible Stories, 1998

April 14, 2011
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Books by Walt Whitman
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3 Poems +2

To You
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Who Learns My Lesson Complete

May 12, 2011
Adrienne Rich (1929 - )

Books by Adrienne Rich
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3 Poems

"Diving Into the Wreck" (1972) from Diving Into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972
"Power" (1974) from The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977
"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" (2007) from Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems, 2007-2010

June 9, 2011
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Books by Charles Baudelaire
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Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil)

3+2 Poems

To The Reader
The Balcony
A Carrion
The Albatross
Be Drunk

September 8, 2011
Yehuda Amichai

Books by Yehuda Amichai
Poetry Foundation: Yehuda Amichai
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Wikipedia: Yehuda Amichai

3 Poems

"Wildpeace" (from Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding, 1976)
"Tourist" (from Poems of Akhziv, 1963-1968)
"Not Like a Cypress" (from Two Hopes Away, 1958)

October 13, 2011
Allen Ginsberg

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3 Poems

America
A Supermarket in California
Sunflower Sutra
In back of the real
Ah, Sun-flower! by William Blake

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems, 1990-2010

November 10, 2011
Maxine Kumin

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3 Poems

"The Retrieval System" (from The Retrieval System, 1978)
"The Word" (from Connecting the Dots, 1996)
"Progress Report" (from The Retrieval System, 1978)