Poems for the Open Road: Poets on Travel, Vacation

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 25, 2017 Songs of the Open Road   Head to the airport, the train station, or the open road to journey to places new and familiar with these poems about travel and vacation.   "Song for Lonely Roads" by Sherwood Anderson "Cattails" by Nikky Finney "Souvenir" by Beth Ann Fennelly "Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City" by Jennifer Grotz "The Decorative Airport Fern Is Not What It Pretends to Be" by Jennifer L. Knox "And the Trains Go On" by Philip Levine "Postcard from Rockport" by April Lindner "The Road from Biloxi" by Khaled Mattawa "Window Seat: Providence to New York City" by Jacqueline Osherow "Song of the Open Road, I" by Walt Whitman

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