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 [...]
“I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”
Sylvia Plath I thought that I could not be hurt; I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering– [...]
Risk
By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful [...]
The Power Of Words
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word [...]
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune [...]
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one [...]
Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color [...]
The Hollow Men
By T. S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. [...]