“The Drinker” by Robert Lowell
"The subjects of these poems will eventually become extinct, like all other natural species devoured by time, but the indelible mark of their impression on a single sensibility will remain, in Lowell's… Read More
Janelle Reyes Reads Ernest Hilbert’s “Domestic Situation” from Sixty Sonnets
Janelle Reyes from Capital Christian High School performs "Domestic Situation" by Ernest Hilbert at Poetry Out Loud 2016.… Read More
“Kingdom Come” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the award-winning author of two books of poetry, The Ground and Heaven, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as the acclaimed collection of literary essays… Read More
“Death Under Glass” by Weldon Kees
"Others have called themselves Apocalyptics; Kees lived in a permanent and hopeless apocalypse." - Kenneth Rexroth … Read More
“The Philosopher” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"America has two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay." - Thomas Hardy… Read More
“Consider this and in our time” by W.H. Auden
"Auden was the first poet writing in English who felt at home in the twentieth century. He welcomed into his poetry all the disordered conditions of his time, all its variety of… Read More
“The Magnet” by Thomas Stanley
"Stanley's fame was as a scholar and translator. He was the author of History of Philosophy (1655-62) and edited Aeschylus in 1663. His best know translations are those of Anacreon and of… Read More
“A Visitation” 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
“Five Flights Up” by Elizabeth Bishop
"Elizabeth Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. Bishop accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly… Read More
“Trumpet Player” by Langston Hughes
"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American Literature...a powerful interpreter of the American experience . . . His poems are as vital as ever." - Philadelphia Inquirer… Read More
“The Relic” by John Donne
"Wonder—exciting vigour, intenseness and peculiarity of thought, using at well almost boundless stores of capacious memory, and exercised on subjects, where we have no right to expect it—this is the wit of… Read More
“Destinations” by Anthony Hecht
"Hecht's poetry works the fault lines of human failing, gauging the pitfalls of pride and what he called 'the infections of the ego.'" - David Yezzi… Read More
“Anasazi” by Terese Coe
Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in Threepenny Review, Poetry, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, New Writing Scotland, The Moth, the TLS, Poetry Review, New Walk… Read More
“Whereabouts” by Kevin Cutrer
Kevin Cutrer was born in the American South, has lived in South America, and now resides in the southernmost neighborhood of Boston. His first poetry collection, Lord’s Own Anointed, was published in… Read More
“The Peppers in December” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin's collection, Stignatz & the User of Vicenza, will be published in January by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, Ohio.… Read More
“There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House” by Emily Dickinson
"Other poets have published to the world verse which, we think, should have been delivered privately to the three or four in a position to decipher the postmark. Emily locked away in… Read More
“Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav’n first-born…” by John Milton
"Milton ministers superbly to our need to comprehend how variously magnificent and strange the English language is, how finely it can communicate what we wish to say, how dextrously it can help… Read More
“A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti
"Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti....Her poetry is increasingly being recognized as among the most beautiful and innovative of the period by either sex." -- The… Read More
“The Cartographer” by Rob Griffith
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Rob Griffith is the author of four collections of poetry: A Matinee in Plato's Cave, winner of the 2009 Best Book of Indiana Award; Poisoning Caesar; and Necessary… Read More
“The Little Vagabond” by William Blake
"Blake neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself 'a divine child,' whose playthings were sun, moon, and stars, the heavens… Read More
“Giving Thanks” by Tony Harrison
"A poet of great technical accomplishment whose work insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence"-- Sean O'Brien… Read More
“The Arctic Ox (or Goat)” by Marianne Moore
"More than any modern poet, she gives us the feeling that life is softly exploding around us, within easy reach." --John Ashberry… Read More
“Sunset Threnody” by Yusef Komunyakaa
"The best writing we've had from the long war in Vietnam has been prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Dien Cai Dau' changes that." -- William Matthews… Read More
“All the Dead Dears” by Sylvia Plath
“The fiercest poet of our time”-- Anne Stevenson… Read More
“Madman Bucket List: A Study for my ‘Lemon Meringue Pie Thrown in Face of George Bush’ Poem” by James Feichthaler
James Feichthaler runs an open-mic poetry reading called "The Dead Bards of Philadelphia" at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk, PA. The self-proclaimed "forrealist poet" is set to release… Read More
“A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” by Wallace Stevens
"One of the most considerable poets of the last hundred years...Poems that are as distinguished as any written in this century." --Thom Gunn… Read More
ERNEST HILBERT’S NEW BOOK, CALIGULAN, NOW AVAILABLE
Ernest Hilbert's third collection of poetry, Caligulan, is now available for sale. … Read More
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot
"A thorough knowledge of Eliot is compulsory for anyone interested in contemporary literature. Whether he is liked or disliked is of no importance, but he must be read." --Northrop Frye… Read More
“Blades” by C.K. Williams
“Williams’s work reflects the moral self-questioning of Herbert, the plain-spokenness and the yearning toward nature of Wordsworth, the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart of the later Yeats.” -- Brian Phillips… Read More
“The White House” by Claude McKay
"He managed to use traditional poetic forms as satisfying vehicles for the expression of his impatience with racism; but at the same time, McKay refused to allow social relevance to become an… Read More