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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Poetry from The Poetry Foundation, distributed by alt.NPR.  Poets read and discuss their poems: Kay Ryan, Robert Frost, Kenneth Koch, Dean Young, Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Terrance Hayes, Kenneth Goldsmith, Billy Collins and many others.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Mama and the Papa</title>
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      <title>Poem Before the Event</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:33:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Battle of the Bards</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:33:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Bloody Sunday &amp; the Fisherman's Ghost</title>
      <description><![CDATA[How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:07:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Mao the Magnificent?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:36:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Seven Essential Dreams Revisited</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Steve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:34:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Was Whitman Really Gay?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A bar fight in the East Village settles it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:28:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Just a Bunch of Consciousnesses, and a Bunch of Stuff</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The late A.R. Ammons and the immutable laws of nature, featuring a recording from the 92nd St. Y.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:36:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Poetry Is Too Literary</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Listening to Grace Paley read her poems.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:23:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Listening to Grace Paley read her poems.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Laugh In</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:15:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles.]]></itunes:summary>
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