All about: America

Reading: The Harbor by Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was a very American poet. He wrote a Lincoln biography and was the only poet who spoke for Congress. He was insanely famous in the US so we have to read one of his poems. Her goes: The Harbor Passing through huddled and ugly walls, By doorways where women haggard Looked from ...
Reading: Taking off Emily Dickinson’s clothes by Billy Collins
Billy Collins (b. 1941) is 'the most popular poet of America' according to some. He was poet laureate of the US several times and won a prize or something for the America's funniest home poetry - he manages to tell a good joke without destroying the poetic wager. I fell in love with this poet, ...

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The assassination speech


The president prepared a speech, but never gave it. His advisers told him that giving this speech would be "unwise with respect his security situation". In plain English: they were afraid it might get him killed.
Instead, he entrusted me the manuscript to "do the right thing". I don't know exactly what he meant by that, ...