Eurydice
That was the Sistine Chapel, wedged between our complex life and all that slept beneath your kisses, and my curses, as we danced love's...
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By Robert Funderburk
- Apr 4
- 18 min
Peace in the Storm
I grew up in Algiers, on the ‘Point,’ and when I played on the grassy slopes of the levee as a child, I would look across a half mile of...
Translation
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Three Poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio
A Genre Picture The evening’s mild: darlings play, singing under the balconies; in the bars, headlong on wings, toasts and good bottles...
By Agnes Wathall
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Sea Fever & Other Poems
Sea Fever No ancient mariner I, Hawker of public crosses, Snaring the passersby With my necklace of albatrosses. I blink no glittering...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 28
- 13 min
Celebrating the Life of Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 24
- 1 min
Fields & Other Poetry
Lavender The lavender serenely sways On quiet fields and sleepy dales, But dreams awake me from my slumber, Causing the fields and skies...
By Cynthia Chung
- Mar 24
- 53 min
How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire
This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The...
Translation
- Mar 19
- 3 min
The Poet's Function by Victor Hugo
God summons him in times awry, When each must rise and each must serve, But shame on him who hopes to hide, Or wanders off into the...
By John Martin
- Mar 19
- 6 min
What Is Art?
This isn't an essay. But it isn't a manifesto either. A manifesto is something one writes before one has started. An essay is something...
By Martin McCarthy
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Bringing Sappho to Life: The Innovative Translations of Michael R. Burch
Not much is known about the Greek poet Sappho, except that she was born around 630 B.C. on the island of Lesbos in the port city of...
By Laura Celise Lippman
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Black Windows of Night & Other Poetry
Black Windows of Night Each night we sit together as the dark lengthens and the snowy mountains fade at an earlier hour. I light candles...
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