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William Blake's "The Garden of Love"
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now co…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"
Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit.[1][2] May was included in the Best American Poetry anthology from 2014. May lived in Detroit, where he t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet.[3] She was a recipient of the Lannan Lit…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (English: /tʊərˈɡɛnjɛf, -ˈɡeɪn-/;[1] Russian: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев[note 1], IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; …
4 years, 9 months ago
Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"
Kara Jackson is a singer/songwriter, musician, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson served as the third National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019…
4 years, 9 months ago
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/rəˈzɛti/),[1] was an English poet, illustrat…
4 years, 10 months ago
Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents w…
4 years, 10 months ago
Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.[1] He is an …
4 years, 10 months ago
Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"
Naomi Shihab Nye (Arabic: نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and an Amer…
5 years ago