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Carole Boston Weatherford's "Sidewalk Chalk"
Today’s poem is a little hopscotch down memory lane. Happy reading.
Weatherford is author of over seventy books including fiction, non-fiction, and po…
1 year, 1 month ago
Wendell Berry's "A Parting"
Today’s bittersweet poem glimpses the life of Arthur Rowanberry across time and beyond. Happy reading.
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1 year, 1 month ago
Karina Borowicz's "September Tomatoes"
Karina Borowicz was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She earned a BA in history and Russian from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"
Today’s poem is a cautionary tale about achieving popular successes. Happy reading.
“Mark Ford summarized Graves’s ‘wholesale rejection of 20th-centur…
1 year, 1 month ago
William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"
Today’s poem is an invitation to an encounter with the Real. Happy reading.
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1 year, 1 month ago
Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Today’s poem is neither the first nor last to mythologize America’s sixteenth president. What is it about Lincoln that makes him so attractive to art…
1 year, 1 month ago
Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"
Today’s poem–from British humorist Roger Woddis–is a witty-yet-withering sendup of double-morality. Happy reading.
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1 year, 1 month ago
"Old English Riddle no. 26" (trans. Roy M. Liuzza)
Today’s poem comes from the largest surviving trove of Anglo Saxon poetry–the Exeter Book. Happy riddling!
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1 year, 1 month ago
Louise Imogen Guiney's "John Brown: A Paradox"
Louise Imogen Guiney is known for her lyrical, Old English-style poems that often recall the literary conventions of seventeenth-century English poet…
1 year, 1 month ago
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington"
Happy 4th of July and happy reading!
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1 year, 2 months ago