A Litany for Survival
By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial [...]
Freedom
by Langston Hughes Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much [...]
Ulysses
By Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d [...]
If —
Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; [...]
Freedom
by Ambrose Bierce Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I [...]
The Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key (1814) Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at [...]
The Power of Words
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word [...]
How to eat a Poem
Eve Merriam Don’t be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run [...]