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poet-in-residence and the first director of the college's Poetry Center. In 2000, she returned to
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huge gift. He took a cluster of words and he lineated it. And I saw it."
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945:. Poets on Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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2015:American women poets
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503:The Black Interior.
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239:March on Washington
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