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Month: November 2020

For What Binds Us by Jane Hirschfield

Posted on November 25, 2020 · Leave a comment

For What Binds Us by Jane Hirshfield There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces. Look around, you can see them: the skin that forms in a half-empty cup, nails rusting into the places they join, joints dovetailed on their own weight. The way things stay so solidly wherever they’ve been set […]

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Honda Pavarotti by Tony Hoagland

Posted on November 17, 2020 · Leave a comment

Honda Pavarotti by Tony Hoagland I’m driving on the dark highway when the opera singer on the radio opens his great mouth and the whole car plunges down the canyon of his throat. So the night becomes an aria of stars and exit signs as I steer through the galleries of one dilated Italian syllable […]

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Everything is Going to be All Right by Derek Mahon

Posted on November 16, 2020 · Leave a comment

“Everything is Going to be All Right” Derek Mahon How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand […]

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Poems

  • A Children’s Story by Louise Gluck
  • Autumn by Louise Gluck
  • April by Linda Pastan
  • The Pasture by Robert Frost
  • The Round by Stanley Kunitz
  • A Warm Day by Louise Gluck
  • On the Mountain by Ruth Stone
  • Winter Morning Walks: March 11 by Ted Kooser
  • Brightly Colored Boats on the Banks of the Charles by Billy Collins
  • Up Here by David Budbill
  • Mount Kearsarge by Donald Hall
  • Thinking About the Past by Donald Justice
  • Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Iowa City: Early April by Robert Hass
  • From “A Shropshire Lad’ by A.E. Housman
  • A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
  • Their Beauty Has More Meaning by Robinson Jeffers
  • Winter Poem by Frederick Morgan
  • A Difference of Fifty-Three Years by Noel Peattie
  • Among His Effects We Found a Photograph by Ed Ochester
  • Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
  • Letter Home by Ellen Steinbaum
  • On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
  • My Dear Bibliophiles by Gary Margolis
  • You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford
  • The Cold by Wendell Berry
  • Good Bones by Maggie Smith
  • The Mower by Philip Larkin
  • Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy
  • In Passing by Lisel Mueller

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