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Charlottesville mayor says critics missed message of her poem comparing city to rapist

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Russell Wilson searched "How To Describe A Beautiful Woman" to find compliment for Ciara

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Nicki Minaj defends reciting Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’: ‘My entire career has been that poem’

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Maya Angelou honors mom, grandmother in new book

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Beyoncé writes poem in support of Frank Ocean

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High schooler told to read Langston Hughes poem 'blacker'

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Jay-Z: Poem disavowing 'b-word' over birth of Blue Ivy is fake

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Rick Santorum drops Langston Hughes poem title from campaign

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Man gets 33 months for threatening Obama in poem

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KY man pleads guilty to threatening Obama in poem

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