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Poems for Election Day

A selection of American poems

By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com

Here are a few classic American poems gathered for reading around Election Day: From the historic 2008 U.S. Presidential election, an evocation of the moment-to-moment waiting of election day itself, written by one of our own About Poetry Forum poets: And for the day after, a contemporary post-election blues:

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