A Happy Childhood (William Matthews Poems)
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing."Out out damn Spot," she commands our silly dog.I wonder what this means. ...
Poems about catcher (9 Poems)
Casey’s Revenge (Henry Grantland Rice Poems)
There were saddened hearts in Mudville for a week or even more;There were muttered oaths and curses- every fan in ...
The Kalevala – Rune XL (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
BIRTH OF THE HARP.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Onward steered his goodly vessel,From the isle of Lemminkainen,From the borders of the village;Steered his ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Flames (Billy Collins Poem)
Smokey the Bear heads into the autumn woods with a red can of gasoline and a box of wooden matches. ...
The Charm Of 5:30 (David Berman Poem)
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
The Sins of Kalamazoo (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
PC (David Lehman Poems)
for Aaron Fogel Politically-correct personal computers point and click. President Clinton (codename Peacock) can't protect crack pushing Communist Party cops ...
Baseball and Writing (Marianne Moore Poems)
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...