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Perspective: Agatha Christie’s ‘Death on the Nile’
Like a poet, Agatha Christie doesn’t waste a single detail. Join us as we read “Death on the Nile” through the theme of Perspective.
Book Club Announcement: Wintering by Katherine May
It is winter, and the rooks are here. Join us for our next patron-only book club, discussing Katherine May’s book “Wintering,” beginning February 9.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. II “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man […]
Top 10 Dusk Poems
Put a poetic spin on dusk with the top 10 dusk poems! Enjoy some well-known classics, & other lesser-known gems. 1 • Winter Clouded with snow The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings now. The rayless sun, Day’s journey done, Sheds its last ebbing light […]
Robert Hudson: What Thomas Merton Had on His Record Player
In “The Monk’s Record Player,” Robert Hudson explains how Bob Dylan influenced Thomas Merton – and defined a moment in America.
XIV. Love’s Baptism by Emily Dickinson
< Return to Emily Dickinson Poems XIV. LOVE’S BAPTISM. I’m ceded, I’ve stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I’ve finished threading too. Baptized before without the […]
Poetry Prompt: Be Your Own Professor — Haiku for Understanding
Something magical can happen when you read a challenging story and then become your own professor — with a summary and haiku.
By Heart: ‘The Snow Man’ + New Sylvia Plath Challenge
Let’s step out of our own snow globe and have a mind of winter. Join us in learning Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Snow Man” By Heart.
“The Little Girl Lost” by William Blake
< Return to William Blake Poems The Little Girl Lost In futurity I prophesy That the earth from sleep (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise, and seek For her Maker meek; And the desert wild Become a garden mild. In the southern clime, Where the summer’s prime Never fades away, Lovely Lyca lay. Seven summers […]
“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Sunday Morning I Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice. She dreams a little, and she feels the dark […]
“Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty I What manner of building shall we build for the adoration of beauty? Let us design this chastel de chastete, De pensee . . Never cease to deploy the structure . . . Keep the laborers shouldering plinths . . . Pass the […]
“The Apostrophe to Vincentine” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems The Apostrophe to Vincentine I I figured you as nude between Monotonous earth and dark blue sky. It made you seem so small and lean And nameless. Heavenly Vincentine. II I saw you then, as warm as flesh. Brunette, But yet not too brunette. As warm, as clean Your […]
“Another Weeping Woman” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Another Weeping Woman Pour the unhappiness out From your too bitter heart. Which grieving will not sweeten. Poison grows in this dark. It is in the water of tears Its black blooms rise. The magnificent cause of being— The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world— Leaves you […]
“Anecdote of Men by the Thousand” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Anecdote of Men by the Thousand The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world. There are men of the East, he said. Who are the East. There are men of a province Who are that province . There are men of a valley Who are that valley. […]
“Anecdote of Canna” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Anecdote of Canna Huge are the canna in the dreams of X, the mighty thought, the mighty man. They fill the terrace of his capitol. His thought sleeps not. Yet thought that wakes In sleep may never meet another thought Or thing . . . Now day-break comes . […]
Wallace Stevens Poems Library
Wallace Stevens Poems Wallace Stevens was a presence in poetry for more than four decades and had an enormous impact on poetry’s substance and direction. Yet we believe his poems are primarily something to experience, rather than analyze. Try reading, and see what we mean 🙂 . Anecdote of Canna Anecdote of Men by the […]
“The Code” by Robert Frost
< Return to Robert Frost Poems The Code There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always lifted toward the west Where an irregular sun-bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger Flickering across its bosom. Suddenly One helper, thrusting pitchfork in the ground, […]
“Anecdote of the Jar” by Wallace Stevens
< Return to Wallace Stevens Poems Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it. And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a […]
50 States of Generosity: Utah
We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on Utah and its surprising state bird: the seagull.