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   <title> World Class Poetry Blog </title>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:01:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Going Dutch Poetry Chapbook</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Going-Dutch.html</link>
    <description>&lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:40:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>World Class Poetry Hall of Fame</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/hall-of-fame.html</link>
    <description>The World Class Poetry Hall of Fame has been called the Dead Poets Society so we'll leave such trite expressions to the dead heart socialites. Not all of these poets are dead - yet.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:13:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Book Review: Variations on a Natural Theme, A Loon Year by Hugh Hennedy</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/variations-on-a-natural-theme.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Book Review: Hugh Hennedy's Variations on a Natural Theme is a meditative book of poems on loons and other sea birds.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:15:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Book Reviews</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poetry-book-reviews.html</link>
    <description>World-class poetry book reviews of contemporary poets, the classics, and translations.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:07:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Publications</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/publications.html</link>
    <description>A list of world class publications that publish poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>World Class Poetry Toolbar</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poetry-toolbar.html</link>
    <description>Download the Wold Class Poetry Toolbar - it's free!</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Yahoo Authentication</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/y_key_eac01d122c5e29da.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Victoria Munoz Poetry Review: &quot;During Your Reading&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Victoria-Munoz.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Review: Victoria Munoz has self-published &lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:35:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Sonnet</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/The-Sonnet-Form.html</link>
    <description>The sonnet is one of the oldest and most loved English forms of poetry in history. Invented by the Italian poets and perfected by the English poets William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser, the sonnet h</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Robert Hayden: A Struggling African-American Voice</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Robert-Hayden.html</link>
    <description>Poet Robert Hayden's life, challenged by setbacks, ends with a triumph of voice and style.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner.html</link>
    <description>&lt;I</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:18:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Publisher's Application</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poetry-publisher-submission.html</link>
    <description>Submit your poetry publication or journal to be included in the World Class Poetry database.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:59:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Pablo Neruda, great twentieth century poet from Chile</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/pablo-neruda.html</link>
    <description>Pablo Neruda, the twentieth century's greatest poet.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:54:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Maya Angelou Tells Why The Caged Bird Sings</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/maya-angelou.html</link>
    <description>Maya Angelou realized her dream to be a writer after years of struggle.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:47:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Kyrielle: The Kyrie Reformed</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/kyrielle.html</link>
    <description>The kyrielle originated with French Troubadours and is still in use today.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jeff Rath Poetry Review: The Waiting Room at the End of the World</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Jeff-Rath.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Review: Jeff Rath may not be known very far outside South Central Pennsylvania, but his poetry defines the Millennial School of Poetry. A must read.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:38:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Harpoon Poetry Chapbook Review</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Harpoon-Poetry-Chapbook.html</link>
    <description>Harpoon Poetry Chapbook: A review of lawyer Michael Cavendish's first poetry chapbook.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:15:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Haiku</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/haiku.html</link>
    <description>The Haiku, originally from Japan, is one of the purest forms of poetry</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:09:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Gwendolyn Brooks</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/gwendolyn-brooks.html</link>
    <description>Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois, was a strong encourager to younger poets.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Types of Poetry: A Virtual Encyclopedia</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/types-of-poetry.html</link>
    <description>Many types of poetry have been written throughout history. Which type is the best one? It depends on who you ask. Here, you can explore them all, study them, employ them and perfect them.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:05:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Petrarchan Sonnet</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Petrarchan-Sonnet.html</link>
    <description>Great examples of the oldest sonnet form, the Petrarchan Sonnet.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Harlem Renaissance Poetry</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Harlem_Renaissance.html</link>
    <description>The Harlem Renaissance is a period during the 1920s and 1930s in which a huge number of African-American artists emerged as popular and successful. For poetry, it was a particularly rich time.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:18:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Excerpt from and notes on &lt;i&gt;An Essay on Criticism&lt;/i&gt; by Alexander Pope</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Essay-on-Criticism.html</link>
    <description>An excerpt from &lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Edgar Allan Poe, the poet and man</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe.html</link>
    <description>Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short story writer, critic, and a rare imaginative and creative writer during the Victorian era.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:48:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dr Seuss, The First Children's Poet of the 20th Century</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Dr_Seuss.html</link>
    <description>Dr Seuss was a successful childrens poet whose rhyme and poetry are still popular among children and adults.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:42:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cecil Day Lewis, The Irish Rose Of Poetry</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Cecil-Day-Lewis.html</link>
    <description>Cecil Day Lewis, The Irish Rose Of Poetry</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:19:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Submit Poetry Articles</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Article-Submission.html</link>
    <description>Submit your poetry articles to World Class Poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:14:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Book Review: Driving With Dante By Brian Michael Tracy</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/driving-with-dante-review.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Book Review: &lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Ars Poetica</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Ars-Poetica.html</link>
    <description>Ars Poetica is Latin for the art of poetry. From Horace to Czeslaw Milosz great poets have used the Ars Poetica to define and give meaning to the nature and art of the poem.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:06:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Amiri Baraka: Radical African-American Marxist Poet</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/amiri-baraka.html</link>
    <description>Amiri Baraka, a radical poet who defined his own poetic style</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:55:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Book Review: A Poetic Voice by Raymond Berube</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/a-poetic-voice.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Book Review: &lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Alexander Pope</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Alexander-Pope.html</link>
    <description>Alexander Pope is, next to William Shakespeare, the most quoted author in the English Language. His poetry sought to inspire, elevate and educate. His life is just as remarkable as his poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Langston Hughes: The Door to the Harlem Renaissance</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Langston_Hughes.html</link>
    <description>Langston Hughes is an important African-American voice in poetry. He helped to usher in a golden age of black literary artists known as the Harlem Renaissance.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:18:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Book Review: Thirst by Patrick Carrington</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/thirst-by-patrick-carrington.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Book Review: &lt;i</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How To Write A Poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/How-To-Write-A-Poem.html</link>
    <description>&lt;I</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:42:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Ballade</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Ballade.html</link>
    <description>The Ballade is one of the most challenging poetry forms to write. With French origins, there are many variations but they all have virtually the same poetic pattern.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Love and War</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Love-and-War.html</link>
    <description>Poet Allen Taylor wrote the poem</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:31:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Music - poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Music.html</link>
    <description>Music is a poem that was written in Iraq by poet Allen Taylor while stationed there in 2005.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:25:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Battlefield Confession poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Battlefield-Confession.html</link>
    <description>Battlefield Confession was written in July 2005 while poet Allen Taylor was stationed in Iraq.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Life - a poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Life.html</link>
    <description>Allen Taylor wrote the poem</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:12:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>20 Acres - poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/20-Acres.html</link>
    <description>Allen Taylor wrote 20 Acres in February 2006 after returning from Iraq; his grandchildren moved in with him and his wife in February 2006.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:06:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Links and Resources for Poets</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/resources-for-poets.html</link>
    <description>A world class list of resources for aspiring poets who want to get published.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:59:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sir Thomas Wyatt: Father of English Poetry</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Thomas-Wyatt.html</link>
    <description>Despite being jailed for major offenses, Sir Thomas Wyatt is best known as the father of English poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:41:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Index of World-Class Poetry Terms</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poetryterms.html</link>
    <description>Poetry Terms every poet should know</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:35:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hyperbole, World-Class Poetry E-zine</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/Hyperbole-Subscription-Page.html</link>
    <description>Hyperbole brings you world class poetry updates, lists of places to get published, and helps for poets seeking publication.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:30:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Little Wordsworths: The Best of Childrens Poetry</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/childrens_poetry.html</link>
    <description>Childrens poetry has been around for a long time. In fact, most children learn to read by reading poetry. Long after the reading experience, begins, however, children should continue reading poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:21:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How To Write A Haiku Poem</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/how-to-write-a-haiku-poem.html</link>
    <description>The haiku form is not limited to a 5-7-5 syllable count, but consists of a fragment juxtaposition.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:14:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Top 10 Ways To Get Your Poetry Promoted</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/get-poetry-promoted.html</link>
    <description>How to promote your poetry.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:13:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry Articles</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poetry-articles.html</link>
    <description>Enjoy these poetry articles and articles on poetics.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:03:49 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Poet Laureate</title>
    <link>http://www.world-class-poetry.com/poet_laureate.html</link>
    <description>History of the poet laureate position with background notes on U.S., British and Canadian poet laureates.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:57:58 GMT</pubDate>
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