Best of Native American Poetry Translations by Michael R. Burch
Speak less thunder, wield more lightning. — Apache proverb Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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By Royal Rhodes
- Apr 11
- 2 min
The Road From Delphi
They said that all the old gods had died, and a strange, plaintive voice had been heard announcing the death from the mountains down to...
By Mathew Ehret
- Apr 9
- 6 min
Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...
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...
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