Poems Out Loud

Lindsay Meisel bio ↓ · April 9th, 2009 · filed under books

For National Poetry Month, Poems Out Loud is featuring people reading their favorite poems aloud. The construction worker who describes his job as “a lot of digging” loves Walt Whitman, and not just because he writes about “common Americans” and “physical labor.” Another man falls in love with poetry when he first encounters Sylvia Plath, even though she was a “well-heeled New England” woman, and he’s a Jamaican immigrant.

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After mastering the arts of tractor driving and compost tea brewing, Lindsay Meisel left her bucolic paradise for the real world, where she spends most of her time on the Internet, writing about being a young and nubile twenty-something. More from this author →

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