engaged or found with labor in order to be. Later on the trees acquired winter. Sent and took and did not go out. The weight of never shedding. We anticipated a cure if come willingly. We were unable ...
Lucy Larcom was born in 1824 and grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts. She taught at Wheaton Seminary from 1854 to 1862. She is the author of A New England Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1889) and ...
furthermore I’ve forgotten the art of the gritty rhyme I see colored motes vaguely not particular stuff rubber ducks robots and tigery shopping bags I wish an eyeful of fresh air filled not loaded a ...
Jazz June. We Die soon.
Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Poets! Towers of God! ” by Rubén Darío, translated by Thomas Walsh and Salomón de ...
“Crow” from Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes, © 1981. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, ...
Idra Novey is the author of several novels and poetry collections, including Soon & Wholly (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Exit, Civilian (University of Georgia Press, 2012), selected for the ...
Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing you’re the cause of the very thing you blame; if you invite ...
In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Dante Micheaux discusses his curatorial approach and his own creative work. Dante ...
In the emptiness where depression sleeps, I washed my grief down with a chianti-dark river, its bitter currents singing me into numbness. I raised a toast to the starless sky, my glass a mausoleum of ...