U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins has launched a new Web site, called Poetry 180, designed to encourage the appreciation and enjoyment of poetry in America's high schools. The site at www.loc.gov/poetry/180 was launched Jan. 4 with 64 poems and will eventually contain the text of 180 poems (one for each day of the school year) as publishers and poets agree to Web publication of Mr. Col-lins's selections. "The idea behind Poetry 180 is simple―to have a poem read each day to the student bodies of American high schools across the country," Mr. Collins said. "Hearing a poem every day, especially well-written, contemporary poems that students do not have to analyze, might convince students that poetry can be an understandable, painless and even eye-opening part of their everyday experience."
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