Today’s poem is by Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017), an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program.[1][2] He wrote fourteen books of poetry.[3]
—Bio via Wikipedia
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Billy Collins' "Marginalia"
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Li Po's "The Solitude of Night"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet's Calendar"
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Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"
Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"
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