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Andrew Barton Paterson's "The Man From Ironbark"
Today’s poem explains why some Australians wear beards.
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bus…
1 year, 3 months ago
Fernando Valverde's "Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him"
Fernando Valverde (Granada, 1980) has been voted the most relevant Spanish-language poet born since 1970 by nearly two hundred critics and researcher…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marya Zaturensky's "The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers"
Today’s poem goes out to all the mothers–we wouldn’t be here without you! Happy reading.
Marya Zaturensky, Russian-born American poet and Pulitzer Pri…
1 year, 3 months ago
Henry Sambrooke Leigh's "The Twins"
Today’s poem is one of the few enduring works of a poet and playwright who burned brightly during his heyday and then blinked out almost entirely. Ha…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
Today’s poem owes a strong debt to Cowper’s “The Poplar Field” but also features a few stylistic echoes of Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” all while achieving a…
1 year, 4 months ago
William Cowper's "The Poplar Field"
“As for man, his days are like grass.” It isn’t much of a stretch, then, when Cowper sees his own mortality in a grove of felled poplars. Happy readi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Larry K. Richman's "The Joys of House Wrecking"
“The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious and dull.” -Roger Scruton
Larry Richman (1934-2023) wa…
1 year, 4 months ago
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"
Though J. R. R. Tolkien translated portions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he did not live to complete the project. Fortunately another Inkling, Nevi…
1 year, 4 months ago
John Keats' "This Living Hand"
Today’s poem has a way of reaching out and grabbing you. Happy reading.
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1 year, 4 months ago
E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
Today’s poem–in which men and women are the two halves of a bell’s tone–voices the rhythms and joys of life in an unconventional way that has to be h…
1 year, 4 months ago