Let us celebrate being alive, having a place in the grand scheme of things, feeling connected to the earth and all its inhabitants.
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“While editing ‘Answering Back,’ in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience.