For podcast listeners: The Slowdown, a poem and a moment of reflection every weekday (www.slowdownshow.org)
I’m not a big podcast listener myself, but this caught my eye
I’m not a big podcast listener myself, but this caught my eye
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C.P. Cavafy, 1915...
by Tracy K. Smith...
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,...
John Berryman, 1948...
Philip Larkin, 1974...
Just stumbled upon this place while browsing /all and I also happen to have written some lines just yesterday, for the first time in years....
David Wojnarowicz, 1976...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds...
My brother lives too far away...
Langston Hughes, 1943...
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I am the weaver of souls, the master of fate...
Dear sip, dear shotgun, dear pound:...
Melvin B. Tolson was born in Moberly, Missouri, the eldest son of a Methodist preacher. His first published poem, about the sinking of the Titanic, appeared in an Iowa newspaper when Tolson was fourteen. In 1947, he was named poet laureate of Liberia and wrote Libretto for the Republic of Liberia to celebrate the centennial of...
A caress begins....
If you can keep your head when all about you...
You're jealous if I kiss this girl and that....
Yi Lei, 1987...
Federico García Lorca, 1921–24...
The pen cuts swiftly across the page....
In Flanders fields the poppies blow...
Life is short, though I keep this from my children....