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Must-Have Infographic: Read a Poem Today

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How to Read a Poem by Tania Runyan How to Read a Poem uses images like the mouse, the hive, the switch (from the Billy Collins poem)—to guide readers into new ways of understanding poems. Anthology included.

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  1. Chris Yokel says

    August 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm

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    • Lyla Lindquist says

      August 21, 2012 at 5:15 pm

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  2. L. L. Barkat says

    August 21, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    Ha 🙂

    And now you are even inspired by CD covers 😉

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  3. Megan Willome says

    August 21, 2012 at 5:33 pm

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    August 22, 2012 at 9:35 am

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