At Bessemer (Philip Levine Poems)
19 years old and going nowhere, I got a ride to Bessemer and walked the night road toward Birmingham passing ...
Philip Levine Poems on Education (7 Poems)
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
The Rains (Philip Levine Poems)
The river rises and the rains keep coming. My Papa says it can't flood for the water can run away ...
Ode For Mrs. William Settle (Philip Levine Poems)
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
Milkweed (Philip Levine Poems)
Remember how unimportant they seemed, growing loosely in the open fields we crossed on the way to school. We would ...
On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane (Philip Levine Poems)
Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane's been drinking and has no idea who this curious Andalusian is, unable even to speak ...
Among Children (Philip Levine Poems)
I walk among the rows of bowed heads-- the children are sleeping through fourth grade so as to be ready ...