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Yeats

William Butler Yeats is my favorite poet. He wrote my favorite poem, “The Second Coming,” which I put in the Poetry page of the “Things I Like” section of my blog. I just put another Yeats poem there, “When You Are Old” read by Irish folks. It’s very cool. Check it out!

I also recommend this short biography of Yeats on one of my all time favorite websites, Poetry Foundation. You can find his poetry and hundreds of other poets, there.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-butler-yeats

Poetry has become especially precious to me now, in these uncertain times. “The Second Coming” could have been written yesterday, it’s so prescient.