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Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters"
In today’s poem, better is a dinner of herbs where love and memory are, than great riches. Happy reading.
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11 months, 4 weeks ago
Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Request"
Today’s poem is channeling Anne Shirley in the autumn of her years. Happy reading.
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1 year ago
Linda Pastan's "Something About the Trees"
Today’s poem takes full advantage of the pantoum form’s naturally-contemplative structure–the repeating lines carrying us back and forth between past…
1 year ago
Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"
In today’s poem, Kenyon wrestles with the Solomonic thesis that “the end of a thing is better than its beginning.” Happy reading.
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1 year ago
Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs"
Noisy upstairs neighbors have been consternating mankind for as long as second-floors have existed. The all-too-familiar phenomenon has inspired nove…
1 year ago
Emily Dickinson's "How soft a Caterpillar steps —"
Philosopher Thomas Nagel famously argued that it is impossible to know what it’s like to be a bat. Dickinson, on the other hand, claims to know what …
1 year ago
Randall Jarrell's "The Lost World"
Today’s poem is the first half of Randall Jarrell’s reverie about his Los Angeles childhood–and one of the most effortless examples of terza rima in …
1 year ago
Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of the Clampherdown”
Today’s poem is the satirical saga of an anachronistic naval battle. Heave ho and happy reading!
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1 year ago
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Fire of Drift-wood"
Nothing feels better and hurts worse than nostalgia. Happy reading.
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1 year ago
Miroslav Holub's "Napoleon"
Today’s brief poem goes out to teachers everywhere as they return to work. Good luck and happy reading.
“Poet Seamus Heaney described Holub’s writing …
1 year ago