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Close Reading

Poems

“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins

“Vertigo” by Anne Stevenson

“His Days Go by the Way Her Years” by Ye Mimi

 

Other Reading

“A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight” by Elisa Gabbert (essay)

“A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later" by Arthur Lubow (essay)

“Word Games” from Poetry (discussion guide)