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| Gratitudes | |
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| A Note to Our Readers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hearing the Call | |
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| Bob O'Meally's "Make Music with Your Life" | |
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| Marge Piercy's "To be of use" | |
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| Pablo Neruda's "The Poet's Obligation" | |
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| Gabriele D'Annunzio's "I pastori" | |
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| Emily Dickinson's "The Chariot" | |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" | |
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| William Stafford's "The Way It Is" | |
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| Walt Whitman's Preface to "Leaves of Grass" [Excerpt] | |
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| Langston Hughes's "Dream Deferred" | |
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| Marian Wright Edelman's "I Care and I'm Willing to Serve" | |
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| Cherishing the Work | |
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| Billy Collins's "First Reader" | |
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| Gary Snyder's "Axe Handles" | |
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| David Whyte's "Working Together" | |
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| Marcie Hans's "Fueled" | |
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| William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow" | |
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| George Venn's "Poem Against the First Grade" | |
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| Jeff Moss's "On the Other Side of the Door" | |
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| Lydia Cortes's "I Remember" | |
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| Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" | |
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| Gary Blankenburg's "The Mouse" | |
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| Lewis Buzbee's "Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" | |
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| On the Edge | |
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| John Milton's "Paradise Lost, Book VIII" | |
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| Stephen Sondheim's "Children Will Listen" | |
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| Al Zolynas's "Love in the Classroom" | |
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| Billy Collins's "On Turning Ten" | |
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| Li-Young Lee's "The Gift" | |
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| Mary Oliver's "The Journey" | |
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| Yehuda Amichai's "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children" | |
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| Jellaludin Rumi's "The Lame Goat" | |
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| Linda McCarriston's "Hotel Nights with My Mother" | |
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| Lucile Burt's "Melissa Quits School" | |
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| Holding On | |
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| Denise Levertov's "Witness" | |
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| Octavio Paz's "After" | |
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| Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" | |
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| William Butler Yeats's "Everything That Man Esteems" | |
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| May Sarton's "Now I Become Myself" | |
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| Annie Dillard's "Teaching a Stone to Talk" [Excerpt] | |
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| David Whyte's "Sweet Darkness" | |
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| Rubin Alves's "Tomorrow's Child" | |
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| Donald Hall's "Names of Horses" | |
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| Judy Brown's "Fire" | |
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| Margaret Walker's "For My People" | |
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| In the Moment | |
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| Elizabeth Carlson's "Imperfection" | |
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| David Wagoner's "Lost" | |
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| Wendell Berry's "A Purification" | |
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| Marge Piercy's "The seven of pentacles" | |
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| Pablo Neruda's "Keeping Quiet" | |
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| Gary Snyder's "What Have I Learned" | |
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| Wislawa Szymborska's "There But for the Grace" | |
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| Derek Walcott's "Love After Love" | |
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| William Stafford's "You Reading This, Be Ready" | |
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| Edgar A. Guest's "Don't Quit" | |
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| Making Contact | |
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| Charles Olson's "These Days" | |
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| Donna Kate Rushin's "The Bridge Poem" | |
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| Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" [Excerpt] | |
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| Virginia Satir's "Making Contact" | |
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| John Moffitt's "To Look at Any Thing" | |
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| Jellaludin Rumi's "Two Kinds of Intelligence" | |
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| Adrienne Rich's "Dialogue" | |
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| Galway Kinnell's "Saint Francis and the Sow" | |
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| Maxine Kumin's "Junior Life Saving" | |
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| Gary Soto's "Saturday at the Canal" | |
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| Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" | |
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| The Fire of Teaching | |
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| Wislawa Szymborska's "A Contribution to Satistics" | |
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| E.E. Cummings's "You Shall Above All Things" | |
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| Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" | |
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| Ranier Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" | |
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| Robert Graves's "Warning to Children" | |
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| Wallace Stevens's "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain" | |
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| Langston Hughes's "My People" | |
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| @nikki giovanni's "the drum" | |
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| @nila northSun's "moving camp too far" | |
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| Czeslaw Milosz's "Gift" | |
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| T. S. Eliot's "East Coker" | |
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| Naomi Shihab Nye's "Shoulders" | |
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| Bettye T. Spinner's "Harvest Home" | |
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| Daring to Lead | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore's "Where the Mind Is Without Fear" | |
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| Barbara Kingsolver's "Beating Time" | |
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| Thomas Jefferson's "Passage from a Letter to William Charles Jarvis" | |
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| Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder" | |
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| Rainer Maria Rilke's "I Believe in All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken" | |
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| Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son" | |
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| @nikki giovanni's "ego-tripping" | |
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| Anne Sexton's "Courage" | |
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| William Stafford's "Silver Star" | |
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| Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" [Excerpt] | |
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| Vaclav Havel's "It Is I Who Must Begin" | |
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| Marge Piercy's "The low road" | |
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| Tending the Fire: The Utility of Poetry in a Teacher's Life | |
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| About the Courage to Teach Program | |
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| The Contributors | |
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| The Editors | |