“The Owl” by Edward Thomas
Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878–9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his… Read More
“Nights of 1998” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Praxilla
From the forthcoming collection All of You on the Good Earth (2013). … Read More
“I Look Into My Glass” by Thomas Hardy
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York: Harper, 1898.… Read More
“Silver Roses” by Rachel Wetzsteon
Rachel Wetzsteon (1967-2009) is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Home & Away, The Other Stars, and Sakura Park, as well as a critical study of W. H. Auden. … Read More
“My Symbolic Suggestion” by Daniel Nester
Daniel Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His latest book is How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction (Soft Skull, 2010). Nester’s first two books, God Save… Read More
“Fireworks” by Chelsea Rathburn
Chelsea Rathburn earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a native of Miami, Florida. Her first full-length collection, The Shifting Line, won the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award and was… Read More
“Home Security” by Ernest Hilbert
From the forthcoming book All of You on the Good Earth, original appearance in Michael Schiavo's magazine The Equalizer. … Read More
“A Small Good News” by Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award. From… Read More
“Crow Hill” by Ted Hughes
In 2008 The London Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". On 22 March 2010, it was announced that Hughes would be commemorated with… Read More
“And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name” by John Ashbery
Check out Jay Parini's Top Ten American Poems. Ashbery squeaks in at number 10 with this favorite. … Read More
“A night of drink, / A night of hate, / A night as dark, / As last nights [sic] date”: Sheen and Heard in the Poetry World
Some of you may recall E-Verse's top five poetry collections by celebrities. Let us not forget that Mr. Sheen, so beloved of popular news media (even as revolutions break out across the… Read More
“In Memory of Jane Fraser” by Geoffrey Hill
"Is Hill the greatest living English poet? Many critics (including Harold Bloom) have said as much, since the 1970s, when a few dense books inspired transatlantic admiration. After four decades with just… Read More
“Landfill” by Morri Creech
Morri Creech's second book, Field Knowledge (Waywiser), won the first annual Anthony Hecht prize.… Read More
“Beating a Dead Horse” by Dick Allen
Dick Allen's new volume of poems, Present Vanishing, has won the 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry.… Read More
“What Isn’t Mine” by Jill Alexander Essbaum
“Why the pairing of sexual and religious expression seems wrong to our post-modern American ears, I think, is because we’re all (no matter what we believe or don’t) direct inheritors of a… Read More
“Garden” by Rae Armantrout
“You can hold the various elements of my poems in your mind at one time, but those elements may be hissing and spitting at one another.” Rae Armantrout. … Read More
“Cohoes Falls” by Stephen Sturgeon
Trees of the Twentieth Century is Stephen Sturgeon's first collection of poetry. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. … Read More
“Nothing But Death” by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robert Bly
"the heart moving through a tunnel, / in it darkness, darkness, darkness . . ."… Read More
“The Belltower” by Diane di Prima
"In 2009, Di Prima was named the Poet Laureate of San Francisco. A movement is currently underway to have a street in the city named in her honor."… Read More
“Children Selecting Books In A Library” by Randall Jarrell
"Their tales are full of sorcerers and ogres / Because their lives are . . . " The setting of this poem may make no sense to readers today, and it certainly… Read More
“Medusa” by Louise Bogan
"Louise Bogan's haunting, melancholy, but fierce poetry challenges me to sort out the question of poetic language and écriture féminine. Her experiments with the lyric earn her an important place in the… Read More
“Meet and Greet” by Ernest Hilbert
For some, ardent reading forms its own end, A drawn-out, lonely, unpaid profession. Even as pastime, it’s viewed as creepy. The mind greets ghosts, and no good to pretend You’ll get much… Read More
“Low Tide” by April Lindner
"With their beautifully textured surfaces, April Lindner's poems explore 'the hunger of skin for skin.' She combines the poet's lyrical compression with the novelist's eye for the telling domestic detail, and,… Read More
“Spain” by Bruce Bawer
"Bruce Bawer is an American literary critic, writer, and poet. He moved from New York to Amsterdam in 1998, where he felt that he could live better as a gay man in… Read More
“The Retired Literary Critic Pauses in his Sunday Reading” by Ernest Hilbert
1. The Retired Literary Critic Pauses in His Sunday Reading by Ernest Hilbert I still wonder who declined in this room Before me, in this rented antique house, As chips of light… Read More
“The Darkest Hour” by David Yezzi in the New York Times
Note, this is the correct stanza structure and spacing, unlike what you'll find at the Times. … Read More
“Long Distance II” by Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is Britain's leading film and theatre poet. His first collection of poems, The Loiners (1970), was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1972, and his acclaimed version of Aeschylus's… Read More
“Speech” by Kevin Young
"At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners,… Read More