“Inside the Blues Whale” by Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver was born Michael S. Weaver and grew up in East Baltimore, the son of a beautician and a steelworker. He entered the University of Maryland–College Park at the age… Read More
“To an Exit Sign” by Lynn Levin
Lynn Levin is the author of three collections of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour (2009), Imaginarium (2005), and A Few Questions about Paradise (2000), both published by Loonfeather Press. Imaginarium… Read More
“Sonnet 115” by John Berryman
John Berryman was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne… Read More
“After Apple-picking” by Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.… Read More
“Fortunate Ones” by Ernest Hilbert
You will inherit large sums of money (But someone dear to you will have to die first). You will travel far and see the wide world (And load yourself with debt; these… Read More
“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio” by James Wright
James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of… Read More
“To the Film Industry in Crisis” by Frank O’Hara
Frank (Francis Russell) O'Hara was born on June 27, 1926, in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Massachusetts, and later studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to… Read More
“AAA Vacation Guide” by Ernest Hilbert
“Philadelphia isn’t as bad as Philadelphians say it is.” – Action Philadelphia billboard on Interstate 95, photograph taken circa 1975 Paris in the Spring, Autumn in New York, Singers pair a city… Read More
“The Great Figure” by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment… Read More
“A Note On Wyatt” by Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a… Read More
“Wanting to Die” by Anne Sexton
Much of Anne Sexton's poetry is autobiographical and concentrates on her deeply personal feelings, especially anguish. In particular, many of her poems record her battles with mental illness. She spent many years… Read More
“William James Still, Drowned in the Delaware River” by Ernest Hilbert
1. William James Still October 23rd, 1898, Gloucester County online pharmacy kamagra-oral-jelly online with best prices today in the USA When I think back so far, light and shape blur, As the… Read More
“Thou Shalt Commit Adultery” by Ernest Hilbert
Exodus, 20:14 Blue pencil and red pen, fix what you can, But words are like ball bearings or beach sand: Once out of the pouch, you can’t hold them all. Something always… Read More
“Sea Mouse” by Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt was born and brought up in New Providence, Iowa, graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. Her first full-length collection of poems,… Read More
“The name—of it—is ‘Autumn’—” by Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and… Read More
“Scary Movies” by Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio was born in Washington DC, the daughter of a former tennis champion and a sports writer. She attended college in San Francisco, earning both her BA and MA from San… Read More
“Lamb” by Mark Wunderlich
Mark Wunderlich was born in 1968 in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in Fountain City, Wisconsin. He is the author of The Anchorage (UMass Press, 1999) which received the Lambda Literary… Read More
“Andromeda Chained to the Rock” by Ernest Hilbert
Perseus, still on the lam, hoped to rest, But, of course, he came across an undressed Virgin, shadowed by a Kraken in the tide. Hoping to avoid another awkward test Of his… Read More
“Sitting Down to Breakfast Alone” by Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor. He was born (1966) and raised in West Texas and is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He has taught at Northwestern University,… Read More
“On Leaving the Bachelorette Brunch” by Rachel Wetzsteon
Born in New York City, the daughter of editor Ross Wetzsteon (the name is pronounced "whetstone"), she graduated from Yale University in 1989, where she studied with Marie Borroff, and John Hollander.… Read More
“At the round earth’s imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)” by John Donne
John Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher.… Read More
“Anna, Emma” by Deborah Warren
Deborah Warren's poems have appeared, or will appear, in America, The Atlanta Review, Commonweal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Orbis, The Paris Review, Sparrow, and other journals. … Read More
“Vanishing Twin” by Catherine Tufariello
Catherine Tufariello's work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry and Yale Italian Poetry (translations). She lives in Indiana, where she and her husband teach at Valparaiso University, with their daughter.… Read More
“Poem before Sunrise” by Peter Campion
Peter Campion, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, and his M.A. from Boston University. He's the author of two collections of poems, Other People (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and… Read More
“Fight or Flight” by Ernest Hilbert
For a retired boxer Trekking city streets, I am mercury Tilting in glints down a vertical grid. I am as much an Iliadic As a cool Odyssean entity. I force my course,… Read More
“The map room” by Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover (b. 30 December 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the… Read More
“Gold Rush (On Disposing of an Old Sofa)” by Ernest Hilbert
What natural or man-made wonders will we Prospect in those crevasses and gullies, Boulders blotted blue as soggy lilacs With lichen and cloud shadow? It’s all free: So dive a palm down… Read More
“Spleen” by Pimone Triplett
Pimone Triplett. Pimone Triplett is the author of The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (1998). She has been the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall… Read More
“Proverbs of Hell” From “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake
Unlike that of Milton or Dante, Blake's conception of Hell begins not as a place of punishment, but as a source of unrepressed, somewhat Dionysian energy, opposed to the authoritarian and regulated… Read More
“Poetry Is a Destructive Force” by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. His first major publication (four poems from a sequence entitled "Phases" in the November… Read More