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Poet of the Week: Amiri Baraka
November 28, 2010
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spring
flat
calamity
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normal
cheese
dude
prostitute
plane
fingernail
breath
mayo
porn
smell
grace
state
relationship
par
click
rumor
envelope
thought
headboard
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purgatory
castaway
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olive
roast
blossom
option
warm
boredom
standstill
sin
skate
curve
radar
daytime
murmur
efficiency
internet
everything
fire
peace
accessory
vibration
memory
fake
waterstain
rage
unrest
child
throne
spot
desktop
touchscreen
ease
survive
fiction
repetition
mess
fear
original
private
port
meridian
perfection
second
hospital
god
intersection
button
spinach
redlight
cradle
soil
greenery
possibility
interest
lace
trophy
defensive
leak
company
wire
seagull
spare
penny
rabbit
cloth
pub
flak
taste
taxi
text
bucket
dusk
backcountry
cop
dance
routine
noble
alignment
tailor
poker
lullaby
opener
amber
policeman
sandbox
clue
draft
carton
collision
refrigerator
arm
money
lock
requisite
administration
load
mayhem
sadist
kelp
drain
harddrive
buddhist
contour
flight
million
zone
hint
silk
end
conflict
loneliness
fort
pastry
eagle
blinding
rare
business
paperback
danger
street
jean
dream
gloom
building
chance
art
disconnect
lunar
army
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enemy
sunflare
european
affection
flint
zero
sphere
play
thunder
factory
value
wrapper
perennial
whim
waterfall
filter
superstition
snazz
yoga
bottle
surface
punctuation
tango
portrait
waterproof
jungle
string
exotic
kitchen
nothing
plastic
metaphysics
acrylic
goat
cotton
now
milanesa
cage
garden
cancer
square
train
monosyllable
dolphin
humble
key
doctor
spray
chemical
baker
Ecuador
backalley
dictator
mind
bamboo
track
heavy
age
ledge
weapon
oatmeal
home
date
dragon
tag
change
succulence
shape
path
perfume
sunlight
past
float
opening
lunch
shore
point
ball
sentence
existence
avenue
woodfloor
table
transparency
autopilot
booth
island
radiance
meat
flower
dinner
fish
restaurant
continent
hole
question
breeze
mayday
samba
pear
doorbell
struggle
recess
perenial
credit
milk
magic
transistor
billion
crowd
route
vulture
ink
probability
toxin
nape
respect
elegance
bearskin
detachment
season
folklore
leftist
purpose
operator
success
peg
slumber
hill
muscle
responsibility
mountain
bend
thigh
pizza
satellites
lucid
lady
lesson
stone
bonfire
blurry
rape
shit
cash
name
ash
burden
battery
periphery
quadrilateral
hero
bubble
wax
sandalwood
red
feet
children
place
job
education
meaning
swing
dinasour
buck
progress
broker
tear
elastic
treason
fair
fountain
man
feather
savannah
machinery
football
dick
gravity
campaign
people
German
channel
sweetness
national
universe
city
deep
soundtrack
instructor
real
broadway
tupperware
renovation
smashup
puck
meow
pedestral
crumb
crack
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canvas
rest
fraction
leaf
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cartilage
hprizon
duty
process
sum
airport
stardom
check
billboard
wife
gold
error
explosion
field
hot
schematic
grain
escaltor
bedroom
gatekeeper
satellite
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alarm
future
paper
English
chapter
anthology
nameless
sign
TV
electric
comma
genius
trutth
young
conversation
smalltalk
owner
brunette
exhaust
work
principle
baseball
pump
display
airplane
splash
traffic
christmas
starfish
block
haiku
sabbath
history
rock
habit
odd
hammock
assumption
potpourri
hourglass
carrot
gratitude
pillage
menace
coincidence
newspeak
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balance
elephant
menu
youth
algorithm
noon
leg
world
luxury
dancefloor
unease
pain
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comedy
mourning
glee
spiral
cityscape
franchise
scam
wheel
blasphemy
camera
rain
PacMan
cold
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newsweek
decade
arrow
sofa
aboriginal
communication
joy
salt
origin
monument
laughter
road
electrolyte
stomach
tub
projection
buick
empty
impermanence
checklist
stab
wait
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alone
spark
contact
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center
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desk
throat
amplifier
symbol
minute
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sandwich
lotion
music
crime
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vegetable
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answer
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restlessness
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instant
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loop
myth
railroad
sunscreen
resonance
counsel
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burn
party
torch
combination
plain
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computer
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honk
stance
ad
voice
mother
leftover
scenery
waste
leisure
hardness
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puddle
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middleman
father
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crepe
honor
welfare
stable
brother
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ravine
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garage
tendency
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testosterone
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plot
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ache
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sun
racket
perception
permanence
pause
politician
cause
rule
rupture
bone
anywhere
suitcase
teeth
untouchable
beam
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glass
bunker
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antenna
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heat
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lust
mouth
guest
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apartment
weight
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definition
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textbook
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truth
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thirst
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timelessness
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