Jane Kenyon's poem Happiness, read by the actress Mary Testa Read the full description.
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Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Jane Kenyon was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and educated at the university there. In 1972 she married the poet Donald Hall, and in 1975 they had left Ann Arbor for a farmhouse in New Hampshire. Kenyon died of leukemia in 1995. This next poem is called Happiness. Kenyon Host Outro: That was the poet Jane Kenyon reading her poem Happiness. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Kenyon , and read some of her poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.
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alex essner
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM | Permalink
amazing
i love this poem so much!
for my talented theatre class, i have to memorize this.
its rather difficult, but im happy i chose this poem.