by Reetika Vazirani I took the train from Patiala, left the girls with Ayah, and lied, I'm with Faye and Daisy. Had to say what he'd approve o...
by Kevin Boyle I put the bookmark in the page after Lincoln's silence during the 1860 campaign, after no one in the Gulf States cast a single vote...
by Lam Thi My Da They say that you, a road builder Had such love for our country You rushed out and waved your torch To call the bombs down on yoursel...
by John Hollander Now at the turn of the year this coil of clay Bites its own tail: a New Year starts to choke On the old one's ragged end. I bite...
by Thomas Hardy "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infa...
by Claudia Emerson It was first dark when the plow turned it up. Unsown, it came fleshless, mud-ruddled, nothing but itself, the tendon's bored ey...
by Aaron Fogel The man who had never heard of Frank Sinatra: he lived A perfectly ordinary life in America. Born in 1915, He followed all the fads, re...
by Thom Gunn I wake up cold, I who Prospered through dreams of heat Wake to their residue, Sweat, and a clinging sheet. My flesh was its own shield: W...
by Tom Lavazzi It doesn't turn anymore the worn stone the seasons halted at winter I remember when two bones, rubbed together made people laugh an...
by Horace Translated by John Milton What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind...