My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns

Dante Di Stefano Lark of my house, keep laughing. — Miguel Hernández this little lark says hi to the rain—she [...]

I, Too

By Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen [...]

“Typers Block”

By Martin Gedge A broken thought A silent rage A loss for words A aging page A eye in mind [...]

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

By – Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the [...]

Lodged

By Robert Frost  “The rain to the wind said, ‘You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed [...]

Introduction to Poetry

Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide [...]

The Trees are Down

Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928) It is not for a moment the Spring is unmade to-day; These were great trees, [...]

Nothing but death

by Pablo Neruda There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the [...]