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Now available on CD, this moving reading by the late Czeslaw Milosz features poems from the Nobel Prize winner, including "Song on the End of the World" and "Outskirts," with some poems read in the original Polish.

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Read the Langston Hughes poem that inspired a Presidential campaign slogan: Let America Be America Again.

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Nebraskan Ted Kooser named next Poet Laureate. Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Justice died at 78. Hundreds of unpublished Philip Larkin poems discovered in his hometown. The Academy of American Poets selects National Poetry Landmarks. Find more news about awards, events, and announcements.