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Loc: Poetry 180: Break
This site shares a one-stanza poem about a family that is working on a puzzle together, taking a break from a world with problems.
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Loc: Poetry 180: "Introduction to Poetry," by Billy Collins
"Introduction To Poetry" is, appropriately, the first poem in the Poetry 180 site. Collins describes how he wishes students would read poetry, as opposed to the way they are trained to read it.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Wheels
The text of Jim Daniels's poem, "Wheels," from his poetry collection, Places/Everyone.
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Loc: Blondie Gets Married! Comic Strip by Chic Young
An indepth look at the comic strip character created by Chic Young as well as a biography on the artist. The site shows how the comic strip connected with people across the world in a social way.
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Loc: Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws
This Library of Congress exhibition overview shows a representative example of cartoons and caricatures from the late 18th century to present time.
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Loc: Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway
An exhibition site from the Library of Congress examining artist Al Hirschfeld's extensive career. There are quality images and extensive background information about Hirschfeld.
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Loc: Petal From the Rose Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Library of Congress offers an overview of the exhibition of illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green, whose work appeared in Harper's Monthly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Loc: Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
A great biographical site on the caricaturist and cartoonist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951 CE). There are nice images of religious, war, political and personal caricatures.
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Loc: The Water Babies Jessie Willcox Smith
An exhibition of The Water-Babies illustations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Originally shown in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon Library of Congress June through September 1999.
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Loc: Library of Congress Bible Collection
Explore, compare, and contrast aspects of the Mainz and Gutenberg Bibles as well as sixteen other bibles as you learn about the history and characteristics of each of the Bibles. These Bibles document a history of Western ideas,...
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Loc: Hope for America
This site from the Library of Congress explores Bob Hope and his role in American entertainment history.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight
This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances
This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: "Numbers" by Mary Cornish
Mary Cornish writes about the "generosity of numbers."
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord
The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
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Loc: Poetry 180: At the Un National Monument Along the Canadian Border
This poem describes the land and sky along the Canadian border.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Did I Miss Anything?
This poem shares a teacher's response to a child who wants to know if he missed anything after a day's absence from class.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Neglect
This eight-stanza poem describes a neglected fruit tree that will not bear healthy fruit.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet
This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Radio
This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.