Robert Schumann
Frank Lloyd Wright
Barbara Bush
Nancy Sinatra
& Julianna Margulies?
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Author: The Best American Poetry
Robert Schumann
Frank Lloyd Wright
Barbara Bush
Nancy Sinatra
& Julianna Margulies?
Go to Source
Author: The Best American Poetry
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. — Mignon McLaughlinThe Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960 via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008) — sdh Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
“Songlines” by Marco Berrettini. Photo © Laurent Philippe The Ballet de Lorraine opened its 2023-2024 season at the beginning of November with Michele Di Stefano’s Sierras: Danses atmosphériques (“Mountains: ambiance dances”) and Marco Berrettini’s Songlines (“Dream tracks”), both of them visually lovely and perceptually stimulating. “Visually lovely and perceptually stimulating” makes me think how much more…
Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Tony Hoagland Today’s offering is perhaps not the usual Hallmark take on Father’s Day, okay. Tony Hoagland as usual slashes right through convention with the straight razor he keeps in his back pocket even when he’s sleeping. This poem rides on a wave of brutal honesty that is…
Refusing to take advantage of your plight, offering a bit of healing for the harm my step has caused I pack a bag of food, big deal, donate some clothing Small goods and actions in a brutally tilting world. The post Advantage | Cattail Jester appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best…
In December 2007, the late Paul Violi (left) read the entries for our BEST AMERICAN POETRY challenge # 2. We repost the results today, Paul’s birthday. THE CHALLENGE (devised by David Lehman): When deciphered, this anagram HIT THE LUMP OF RICH SEAL represents the title of a book of poems by a past guest editor…
We live in a scary World today It’s different than Before No more hugs kissing Our happiness gone away Like never before The virus has taken our Loved ones away Families suffering Like never before The fear of the unknown Has arrived The worry of what will happen Tomorrow to you and me Coronavirus on…