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Blaze Koneski's "Peppers"
Today’s poem, translated by Kristian Josifoski, makes a pepper into more than a pepper. Happy reading.
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2 months, 4 weeks ago
Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"
Today’s poem is all about the correlation between the elaborate architecture of a lie and the pleasure that telling it can give. Maybe an allegory fo…
3 months ago
A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"
Today’s poem is about the strange whys and ways of trying to endure in this world. Happy reading.
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3 months ago
John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece
Today’s poem is an open-ended sonnet-versation (sonnet conversation) between youth and experience–with the rarer twist that the dynamic is here prese…
3 months ago
Maurice Manning's "To the People of Sangamo County"
“The effort to be/ accomplished, without experience,/ is something to pity”
Happy reading.
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3 months, 1 week ago
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "In Summer"
There are few joys as pure as singing in the summer time. Happy reading.
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3 months, 1 week ago
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Today’s poem is one of the best known English war poems, both challenging popular notions of the glories of warfare and acknowledging the oft-unseen …
3 months, 1 week ago
John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"
“…a word might turn you
all the bent ways to love, its mercies
practiced, its one day at a time
begun and lived and slept on and begun.”
Happy reading.
…3 months, 2 weeks ago
Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"
Today’s poem is not the one you should read at graduation parties this month. Happy reading.
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3 months, 2 weeks ago
Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"
Today’s poem–from Olstein’s first collection, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006)–is a melancholy collection of the little things we’d like to say to …
3 months, 2 weeks ago