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The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama's new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Lyla Willingham Lindquist has This Week's Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Should the Founding Fathers be booked for selling their used ones? Are public school students reading too much fiction? Are there too many poets writing too many poems? Which direction should I mow my lawn? Lyla Willingham Lindquist has the answers to burning questions--or at least the burning questions--in This Week's Top Ten Poetic Picks.