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Poetry Month 2016: Eavan Boland
What Language Did
The evening was the same as any other.
I came out and stood on the step. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Constantine Cavafy
The First Step
The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritos:
“I have been writing for t Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: John Brandi
No Ship Will Ever Take You
Away From Yourself
—Cavafy
Sunrise through glazed reeds. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Ovid
Tristia, Book IV, 10
Who was this I you read, this trifler in tender passions?
You want to know, pos Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Hayden Carruth
Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse with You a While
upon mutability—if it were possible. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Sam Hamill
from Lives of a Poet: Four Letters to Hayden Carruth
2. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Jared Carter
For Starr Atkinson, Who Designed Books
Oldest of words, of sounds: star. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Louis Simpson
The Unwritten Poem
You will never write the poem about Italy. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Ce Rosenow
On Reading Sappho’s Lyrics
Sunday morning
I trace each line of verse
with my index finger,
find my Read More