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I like verse anthologies. I generally read them through, skimming over entries that don't grab my attention, but also trying to read wi...

Turmoil is too weak a descriptor for the heart-rending tragedies inflicted by gods and their fellow men on earth's undeserving souls. I...

The Kestrels When I would think of you, my mind holds only The small defiant kestrels — how they cut The raincloud with sharp wings, continu...

Where I live these days have been hot and hazy; I see thunder clouds but there's been no rain. Perfect weather for the current issue of...

Last March, the New York Public Library staged an excellent Tribute to John Updike presented by his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New...

Happy Independence Day My favorite patriotic poem is Emerson's Concord Hymn , "Sung at the Completion of Concord Monument, April 19...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: [ca. May 7 1848]         I saw Tennyson, first, at the house of Coventry Patmore, where we dine...

Here are links to the 30th-43rd poems that T.E. Lawrence wrote out in Minorities , his pocket book of blank pages. With exception of two, th...