Learning the Bicycle by Wyatt Prunty

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Learning the Bicycle by Wyatt Prunty

Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
From: Curtis Fox
Length: 00:01:31

Poet Wyatt Prunty reads his poem Learning the Bicycle Read the full description.

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Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Wyatt Prunty was born in 1947 in Tennessee. In this poem, Learning the Bicycle, Prunty realizes he has to let go in order to teach his daughter to ride a bicycle. Host Outro: That was the poet Wyatt Prunty reading his poem Learning the Bicycle. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Wyatt Prunty, and read some of his poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.