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Seven Favorite Flower Poems

Our editors pick flower poems from Poetry magazine, American Poetry Review, and The Kenyon Review.
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Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel,” 50 Years Later

Published in 1965, Ariel was published after Sylvia Plath herself had already been dead for two years.
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Florence Foster Jenkins, World’s Worst Opera Diva

Florence Foster Jenkins, the legendary diva of awfulness, known as the world's worst opera singer.