This is a wonderful, hilarious labor of love to prove that Shakespeare was indeed a time traveler yearning to return to his own time. The poem has been painstakingly recreated through the encoded lines in the Bard's own works.

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I'm looking for a poem/author. I'm almost positive the poem is titled The Apple. One part talks about the moment between when your hand is cut off (do to a lawnmower accident) and when realization sets in, let alone pain starting. I would greatly appreciate anyone's tearing me in the right direction. Thanks all!

Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Trethewey says of her forthcoming volume, "Thrall is in many ways about one's calling as an artist, about apprenticeship to a master, about the idea of racial difference codified by the Enlightenment, such ideas represented in paintings and my relationship to my father." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57IpZ_xtmX4

U.S. Poet Laureate (2004-2006) Ted Kooser is a major poetic voice for rural and small town America and the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry, most recently 2004's Pulitzer Prize-winning Delights and Shadows. Nebraskan Kooser often draws from his native Great Plains and his poems are acclaimed for their simple, straightforward style. Kooser reads from his poetry before a standing-room only audience in Campbell Hall at UC Santa Barbara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuoWarhWFXw

In this University of Virginia video, Donald Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate, reads several poems in the most colorful way. With numerous awards such as two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Marshal/Nation Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lily Prize for Poetry, Hall is one of the greatest poets of our time. He has published 15 books of poetry and now shares his creative wisdom in this thoughtful exploration of his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-A6veVHhtA

Bukowski at Bellevue - 1970 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7evyLUanPOQ Charles Bukowski documentary - Born Into This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgtfKX2STw The Charles Bukowski Tapes [1985] part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsF9_ewK4E part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upP0T6kdGlk Short "thoughts" :) Bukowski and Fiancee Arguing - scary

William Shakespeare's sonnets read by David Tenant Sonnet 18 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6Of-pwKP4 Sonnet 71 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUNrs0elFkw Sonnet 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3iEUKlW-Y Sonnet 126 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tsAN4PYvw Alan Rickman reads Shakespeare's 130 sonnet

Lowell reads his "Epilogue" - http://www.poetrynook.com/poem/epilogue-15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULbDW3Vv3k