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Featured Poem
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1967
- Dec 1, 1967 A Letter to Myself
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1985
- Feb 27, 1985 Directing
- Mar 29, 1985 Auditioning "Shrew"
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1993
- Feb 10, 1993 Cabin Fever
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2000
- Nov 30, 2000 I Can't Imagine Being Dead
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2001
- Mar 26, 2001 As If Perpetual
- Jun 2, 2001 Tradition
- Oct 25, 2001 Deaths and Life
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2002
- Apr 6, 2002 Mobile Home
- Sep 22, 2002 Ground Beans
- Oct 31, 2002 Contained Time
- Nov 6, 2002 Dirty Word
- Nov 13, 2002 Connections
- Nov 24, 2002 Thornton Wilder
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2003
- Apr 11, 2003 My Brother's Dead Weight
- Apr 20, 2003 His Last Easter
- Jul 19, 2003 The Visit
- Aug 29, 2003 Canceled
- Nov 21, 2003 The Light in a New Season
- Dec 20, 2003 All in the Timing
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2004
- Jan 7, 2004 Payback
- Mar 14, 2004 The Newly Found Dead Brother's Picture Book
- Aug 5, 2004 Forgotten Birthdays
- Sep 17, 2004 International Sweetness
- Oct 15, 2004 Mortality Has Its Disadvantages
- Nov 8, 2004 Faith Based
- Nov 17, 2004 Swamped
- Dec 2, 2004 Dogs and the Cold Snap
- Dec 3, 2004 Getting Some Culture
- Dec 28, 2004 Busted
- Dec 29, 2004 Historical Perspective
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2005
- Jan 6, 2005 Dreams of Competence
- Jan 9, 2005 Charged with Concert Glory and Fear
- Jan 15, 2005 Boxes of Childhood at the Curb
- Jan 27, 2005 Electric Forest
- Feb 19, 2005 Eureka
- Mar 2, 2005 Eclectic Coffee Mugs
- Apr 27, 2005 Barry walked up today,
- Jul 19, 2005 Wind
- Aug 1, 2005 Now What Do I Do?
- Sep 9, 2005 Wars and My Father
- Sep 12, 2005 Bad News Bears
- Sep 18, 2005 The Sunday Trains
- Oct 1, 2005 So Ten Minutes Ago
- Oct 2, 2005 Juxtapositions
- Oct 8, 2005 A Visit With Nicole
- Oct 15, 2005 The New Mexico Trip
- Dec 15, 2005 Celery and Peanut Butter
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2006
- Jan 24, 2006 Children
- Feb 15, 2006 The Talking Wooden Frog
- Mar 30, 2006 A Dead Day
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2007
- Aug 8, 2007 Eugene O'Neill Looms Large
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2009
- Feb 9, 2009 Lost Phone
- Sep 29, 2009 The Universal Cellphone Bulge
- Nov 8, 2009 You Like Christmas Songs; You Sing Them All Year Long
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2010
- Jan 20, 2010 Dreams of My Childhood
- Aug 24, 2010 Breakfast in the Past
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2011
- Dec 1, 2011 A Dream of Jack
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2012
- Feb 5, 2012 Irony
- Mar 16, 2012 Memories Born of Music
- Aug 28, 2012 The Bull's Out!
- Sep 15, 2012 Sprung From The Old Song
- Nov 16, 2012 Asleep with my eyes open
- Dec 1, 2012 Jack's Orange Jacket
- Dec 9, 2012 Working
- Dec 11, 2012 Sue Could Be a Lion Tamer
- Dec 31, 2012 In the Eighties I Took Eight High School Kids to New York to See a Production of Les Miserables
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2022
- Nov 19, 2022 Charles Slater 1932-2022