"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night...
She walks in beauty, like the night...
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,...
“Louder Than A Bomb” is a great documentary about the Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival in Chicago. Definitely give it a watch and obviously if you have access to the Festival itself, it’s the largest youth poetry festival in the world.
Mist clogs the sunshine....
Having inherited a vigorous mind...
Out of the night that covers me,...
Whose woods these are I think I know....
Ani DiFranco, 1995...
Jake Byrne, 2023...
Marina Tsvetaeva, 1933...
One of my favorite unconventional translations, alongside Stephen Berg’s With Akhmatova At The Black Gates and Dark Elderberry Branch by Kaminsky & Valentine....
He screws all the girls he can find...
C.P. Cavafy, 1919...
Gillian Weiss, 2007...
Federico Garcia Lorca, 1922...
I’m a fucking dork
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1846...
Jane Kenyon, 1978...
Anna Akhmatova, 1921...
Take this kiss upon the brow!...
Lay down these words...
There is a war in the distance...