by Sterling A. Brown Swing dat hammer——hunh—— Steady, bo'; Swing dat hammer——hunh—— Steady, bo'...
by Carlos Drummond de Andrade Translated by Mark Strand Clara strolled in the garden with the children. The sky was green over the grass, the water wa...
by Tom Sleigh (Note: a space station generates gravity by revolving one way and then another. When it reverses direction to revolve the other way, the...
by Gaius Valerius Catullus Translated by David Mulroy Sparrow, the special delight of my girl, whom often she teases and holds on her lap and pokes wi...
by Mary Rose O'Reilley I go to church every Sunday though I don‘t believe a word of it, because the longing for God is a prayer said in the ...
by Jean Follain Translated by W. S. Merwin It happens that one pronounces a few words just for oneself alone on this strange earth then the small whit...
by Emily Bront The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees a...
by Maggie Nelson The spirit of Jane lives on in you, my mother says trying to describe who I am. I feel like the girl in the late-night movie who gaze...
by Walt Whitman...
by Charles Baudelaire Translated by Richard Howard (I) February, peeved at Paris, pours a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees of the graveyard next doo...