“Meeting and Passing” by Robert Frost
"...Earth's the right place for love: / I don't know where it's likely to go better." - Robert Frost, "Birches" … Read More
“Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice
"To speak for myself, rereading MacNeice I have been overwhelmed and exhilarated. What other twentieth-century poet writing in English explores with such persistence and brilliance all that being alive can mean?" -… Read More
“Listening Comprehension” by Maryann Corbett
Maryann Corbett earned a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota and expected to be teaching Beowulf and Chaucer and the history of the English language. Instead, she spent almost thirty-five… Read More
Archibald MacLeish’s ‘The Fall of the City’, a Radio Play in Verse Starring Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith
CBS broadcast the The Fall of the City nationwide from the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York at 7 PM on April 11, 1937 as part of the Columbia Workshop radio series… Read More
“On a Phrase of Thomas Merton’s” by Bill Coyle
"Bill Coyle's poems can strike every kind of note: they are grave or touching, acerbic or funny, and always civil. He writes with a clear flow of lively thought, and at the… Read More
“The Improved Binoculars” by Irving Layton
“I taught him how to dress; he taught me how to live forever." - Leonard Cohen … Read More
“Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser
"She is a radical politically, but she writes as a poet not a propagandist. When you hold this book in your hand you hold a living thing." - W. R. Benet… Read More
“At the Tomb of the Unknown President” by Tom Disch
"Tom Disch’s novels and poems may be applied as touchstones against cant and mealy-mouthed self-deception. Vigilance will be much harder with him gone." - David Yezzi… Read More
“The Music Crept By Us” by Leonard Cohen
“Leonard Cohen is a narcissist who hates himself.” - Irving Layton … Read More
“Skeptic Christmas” by Jules Laforgue (Trans. by Kate Flores)
"He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations, a father of light," - Ezra Pound… Read More
“Ars Poetica #58” by Alexander Long
Alexander Long has published four chapbooks, most recently The Widening Spell (Q Avenue Press, 2016) & Lunch with Larry (Q Avenue Press, 2014). Long has also published three full collections of… Read More
“Advent is the Season to Save” by G.M. Palmer
G.M. Palmer lives with his wife and daughters on a poodle farm in North Florida. His writing can be found through www.gmpalmer.com and is on Twitter @gm_palmer… Read More
“Rural and Urban Welcome Signs” by Alexandra Kulik
Alexandra Kulik is a bag of multitudes living in suburban Chicagoland. She spends the better part of her time writing and walking aimlessly with her dog. … Read More
“Jane Austen Strolls the Upper Rooms” by Marly Youmans
Marly Youmans is the author of thirteen books of poetry and fiction. Her recent books of poetry include Thaliad and The Throne of Psyche. Recent novels are Maze of Blood, Glimmerglass, and… Read More
“Be Angry At The Sun” by Robinson Jeffers
"Of all the poets of his generation, [Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon… Read More
“Series of Dreams” by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The U.S. presidential election has inspired an extra amount of… Read More
“From the Bottom Up” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin’s latest Collection, Stignatz & the User of Vicenza is published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland Ohio. His other books published by Dos Madres are the booklength poem Soutine (2012), the… Read More
“What The Chairman Told Tom” by Basil Bunting
"Basil Bunting's poems are an enduring measure of the craft itself, an abiding intelligence of all that 20th century poetry was about....What he wrote, stays." - Robert Creeley… Read More
“Remembering the Children of First Marriages” by Lucy Tunstall
Lucy Tunstall was born and grew up in London and now lives in Bristol with her two sons. Her debut collection The Republic of the Husband was released by Carcanet Press in… Read More
“Waning is now the sensual eye” by C. Day Lewis
"Day Lewis, poet laureate of England from 1968 to his death...had from early on, in addition to social outrage, a clear lyrical gift and impressive technical mastery." - Choice … Read More
“A Clock in the Square” by Adrienne Rich
“Poems are analogous to persons; the poems a reader will encounter in this book are neatly and modestly dressed, speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed… Read More
“Aubade” by Adam Crothers
Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984, and lives in Cambridge. He is the author of Several Deer (Carcanet, 2016) and an editor for the online magazine The Literateur.… Read More
“On Not Writing as a West Indian Woman” by Vahni Capildeo
Born in Trinidad, Vahni Capildeo has lived in the UK since 1991. She is the author of the poetry collections Dark & Unaccustomed Words, No Traveller Returns, Person Animal Figure, and Undraining… Read More
“The King’s Bed” by Penny Boxall
Penny Boxall graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA with distinction in Creative Writing (Poetry). Her debut collection, Ship of the Line, was published by Eyewear in 2014. She… Read More
“The Antikythera Mechanism” by Eric Thomas Norris
Eric Norris lives in Portlandia, USA. His poems and short stories have appeared in Soft Blow, Assaracus, Jonathan, The Nervous Breakdown, Glitterwolf, The Raintown Review, and E-Verse Radio.… Read More
“Bertrand Russell’s Chicken” by Nic Aubury
Nic Aubury was born in Watford in 1974 and grew up in the Midlands. He read Classics at Oxford and now teaches Latin and Greek for a living. He had a chapbook… Read More
“The Toadstone” by Reagan Upshaw
Reagan Upshaw is a poet and critic living in Beacon, NY. His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in Bloomsbury Review, Boston Review, Hanging Loose, the San Francisco Chronicle, Light, Poets… Read More
“Insomniac” by Rebecca Watts
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk, England in 1983 and now lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance editor. In 2015 a selection of her work… Read More
“How easy it was, to stand and look at the stars” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where he studied under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. His poem which… Read More