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Norman Maccaig's "Interruption to a Journey"
Today’s poem captures the stab and indelible imprint of unintended destruction. Happy reading.
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana"
Today’s poem is from an author seldom associated with poetry today, though in his lifetime his verse garnered considerable recognition. Happy reading…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Edward Rowland Sill's "The Fool's Prayer"
Today’s poem presents two kinds of fools–those who know they need mercy, and those who don’t. Happy reading.
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"
Today’s poem is very much on-brand for Butler, whose best-known short story, “Pigs is Pigs,” concerns “a bureaucratic stationmaster who insists on le…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
R. S. Thomas' "The Bright Field"
In today’s poem the speaker has seen the light. Happy reading.
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4 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Henderson Brooks' "The Resurrection"
Now Calvary was loveliness:/Lilies that flowered thereuponPulled off the white moon’s pallid dress,/And put the morning’s vesture on.
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4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Pangur Ban"
Today’s poem, translated by Robin Flowers, was originally written in Old Irish inside an 8th-century scribe’s copy of St. Paul’s epistles. However, i…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 99"
Today’s poem is one of Shakespeare’s “irregular” sonnets–he’s got 99 problems (most of them flowers), but strict obedience to the requirements of the…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Nicholas Samaras' "The Second Death of Lazarus"
Today’s poem imagines the long life of Lazarus as he awaits, like Eliot’s magi, “another death.” Happy reading.
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5 months ago
Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"
Today’s poem is a hirsute parody of a much better poem. Sorry in advance. Happy reading.
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5 months ago