Poems Featured:

NEA Big Read Poetry Workshop: Where We Live

• “Coming Home” by Mary Oliver. Published in Dreamwork (1986) and Devotions (2017).

  • https://theuncarvedblog.com/2022/07/15/coming-home-by-mary-oliver/

• “Leaving Tulsa” by Jennifer Elise Foerster. Published in Leaving Tulsa (2013).

  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57637/leaving-tulsa

• “Transplanting” by Lee Ann Roripaugh. Published in Year of the Snake (2004).

  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53596/transplanting

• “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy. Published in C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (1975)

  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec

• “Perseus in Arkansas” by Diane Glancy On Age in a Dreamy (1986)

  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51350/perseus-in-arkansas

• “Going Home: New Orleans” by Sheryl St. Germain. Published in Let it Be a Dark Roux (2007).

  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56346/going-home-new-orleans

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