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Challenge: Poetry? Beats Me!

Read a poetry collection by a Beat/NY School poet to earn bonus points and a special badge!

When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

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Task
Read Collected Poems, 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
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Read The Poetry of Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac
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Read Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
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Read The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Read Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; and, In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
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Read A Wave: Poems by John Ashbery
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Read Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Read Funk Lore: New Poems, 1984-1995 by Amiri Baraka
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Read The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
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Maricopa County Reads is the award-winning online summer reading program provided by the Maricopa County Library District to all public libraries within Maricopa County.