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Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"
Joy Harjo (/ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laur…
5 years, 3 months ago
W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century l…
5 years, 3 months ago
Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013.[1] She won the 2…
5 years, 3 months ago
Ted Kooser's "Mother"
Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939)[1] is an American poet. Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to th…
5 years, 3 months ago
Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"
Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist and has studied the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords and the Aleutian Isl…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sharon Olds "The Race"
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980,[1] the 1984 National Book Cri…
5 years, 3 months ago
John Keats' "After dark vapors"
John Keats (/kiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, w…
5 years, 4 months ago
Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"
Today's poem is by the Bard are from the final lines of Love's Labours Lost, one of his lesser-known comedies.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"
Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetr…
5 years, 4 months ago
Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright.
Encouraged to read the classics at home, …
5 years, 4 months ago