My Shadow. By Robert Louis Stevenson. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head
By Stephen Spender. My parents kept me from children who were rough. Who threw words like stones and wore torn clothes. Their thighs showed through rags they ran in the street. And climbed cliffs and
At Noon By Reginald Gibbons About this Poet Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writ
Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer. Fatimah Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Come for Us (One World/Random House, 2
in which I see some possibility. but which are dead and which have the surprise. I don't know, and I've no pool to help me tell—. so I look at them and look at them until. one thing makes a mirror in
Cuts like a scythe, while through the clouds. It sweeps from vale to vale; Not five yards from the mountain path, This Thorn you on your left espy; And to the left, three yards beyond, You see a littl
A Picture of Soldiers by Marvin Bell | Poetry Magazine Back to Previous April 1967 A Picture of Soldiers By Marvin Bell JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and ext
Hồ Xuân Hương. By Linh Dinh. In 2000, John Balaban published Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. On the cover is a bare-breasted woman, presumably Oriental, hiding her face behind a gong or a
Thom Gunn was well known for writing about non-traditional subjects in traditional poetic forms. Use Gunn's poem to think about subject matter, style, and signature. Ask students to guess when "From t
4 days agoLike "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or The Waste Land, Just Us is a book in conversation with itself—perhaps the greatest achievement a poet-critic can give us. Poet and scholar Timothy Y
Hoa Nguyen http://www.hoa-nguyen.com Hoa Nguyen is the author of five books and more than a dozen chapbooks, including Violet Engery Ingots (Wave Books, 2016), Tells of the Crackling (Ugly Duckling Pr
Viet Thanh Nguyen Interviews Ocean Vuong at LARB By Harriet Staff Photo by Peter Bienkowski Read a transcript from Nguyen and Vuong 's live conversation at the Los Angeles Public Library, which took p