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Do Not Go Gentle-The Power of Poetry

April is National Poetry Month.  The Sound of Applause celebrates the event  as Dee shares the voices and verses of poets on "Do Not Go Gentle: Exploring the Power of Poetry."  We visit poetry professor George Bilgere’sclassroom for a discussion of Keats…area poets Daniel Gray-Kontarand Katie Daileytalk about the process of writing poetry…and we hear Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath reading their work.

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