Wild Birds
Across a still and perfect sky in Autumn The geese come headlong, urgent, flying low With no heed of guns or wind or weather, As if brute...
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By Dana Gioia
- Feb 23
- 1 min
What Is Poetry? 10 Observations About the Art
This video is the first in a series of introductory talks on the art of poetry. They explore how to read, study, and enjoy poetry. The...
By Louis Markos
- Feb 20
- 5 min
Dante on Eden
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
By Rowland Hughes
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Throwing Away the Wind
It was the best kite we’d made, at least the only one that flew. An old tablecloth, needle and thread, bamboo canes, string and folded...
By Stewart Burke
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Silver Salver, Golden Chalice
Things first gazed upon most define our sight. Rapt eyes are drawn to the sensuous cleft In a musk melon of one slice bereft, Betraying...
By Adam Sedia
- Feb 10
- 11 min
The Parable of the Red Sky
After crossing the Great Mountains, I saw before me, to the west, a vast and sprawling plain. Many great rivers crossed its fertile...
By Mathew Ehret
- Feb 9
- 9 min
Norman Rockwell & the Rediscovery of America’s Moral Compass
A great poet once said that you can judge a nation by how it honors (or fails to honor) its artists. In many ways, the soul of a nation...
Translation
- Feb 9
- 1 min
Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine
Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day. But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window there looms a...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Beneath by Caitlin Johnstone
Don't let the fraudulence of this civilization eclipse the supernova of authenticity hidden just beneath that thin membrane. Don't let...
By Mid Walsh
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Fallen Crystal & Other Poetry
That crystal pointed flakes of snow could ever dull, defies the mind. But it is so, if one can find an avalanche. It is a fact: wind...
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