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Alice:=20
Although the print transcript is not yet available,=20
you can find a program synopsis, and direct links to actually here Billy=20
Collins read the poem at:

http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.jhtml?prgDate=3Dcurrent&prgId=3D3

The segment runs at the end of the program,=20
so scroll down to the bottom of the page.=20

You can also go directly to the RealAudio at:
http://tinyurl.com/8l9r

Collins reads 2 poems,=20

The first by a Polish poet, Wis=B3awa Szymborska
Title: "We Knew the World Backwards and Forwards"

I used AllTheWeb engine to access this page:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0140831001/100901.html

From here I found a great page, from a authoritative source, The Nobel=20
Foundation. She won the Nobel for literature in 1996.=20

Full-Bio at:
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1996/index.html
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Poem 2

By Carol Snow
Title: "Tour"


I hope this helps.=20

cheers,
gary






Quoting Alice Yucht <aliceinfo@excite.com>:

> Oh wise ones:
> Did anyone catch the title/author of the poem Billy Collins read on NPR's
> Morning Edition today (4/1/03)?  It was not -- technically -- about war, b=
ut
> still very apt.
> I've had 4 different teachers ask for it already, and the transcript of th=
e
> program isn't available yet.
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> TIA,
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> Alice Yucht, Teacher-Librarian
> Heritage Middle School, Livingston NJ
> http://www.hmslibrary.info (school)
> http://www.aliceinfo.org (personal)
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> "Tact is the ability to tell a person to go to Hell in such a way that he =
or
> she goes home and packs, looking forward to the trip."
> --Valeria D. Truitt
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