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“Cover the Lettuce” A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Barbie How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honor Thy Father's Day Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of the Poetic Bubble How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light in the Service of Loneliness Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work. 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