Carol Snow, “Tour”
My first day as a substitute teacher in high school I was assigned to a class in a computer lab. The students there were supposed to be making personal websites...
Author: ashok
from Fanny Howe’s “O’Clock”
I have backed up into my silence as inexhaustible as the sun that calls a tip of candle to its furnace. Red sparks hit a rough surface I have been out—cold—too—...
Sappho, “Although they are / Only breath…”
Sappho is honest. For a moment, she admits her words are “only breath.” Then—and this is perhaps questionable—she declares her “command”...
William Blake, “A Divine Image” and “The Divine Image”
11 years ago I started blogging on poetry and desperately needed content. The rule was to post daily, and this had three consequences I didn’t foresee: I ...
Emily Dickinson, “To make a prairie” (1755)
Looking out at the vast expanse of prairie, miles of wilderness and potential, is itself a reverie. It is, perhaps, the reverie, a surge of wonder at the mere h...