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Earth Stanzas

Curated in partnership with the Center for Earth Ethics

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Democratic Vistas

Walt Whitman, 1871

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House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros, 1984

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Thank You, M’am

Langston Hughes, 1958

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Collection · 5 Texts

The Art
of Play

Curated in Collaboration with Chautauqua Institution

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Collection · 6 Texts

The Life of the
Written Word

Curated in Collaboration with Chautauqua Institution

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Curated by the Wick Poetry Center Staff at Kent State University

COLLECTION · 9 TEXTS

Writing Across
Borders

Curated Texts from the Exhibit Funded by the Knight Foundation 

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COLLECTION · 5 TEXTS

The Ethics
of Dissent

Curated in collaboration with Chautauqua Institution

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