Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...

Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....

Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...

Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...

A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...

from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...

Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room....

Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro (published in Jacket Magazine, August, 2003) Henry Hudson turned to me and said: Be...

If you were the poet David Shapiro, there was one day in which you posed for a photo that became symbolic and iconic and historic. The...

What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson What do I care for morning, For a shivering aspen tree, For sun flowers and sumac Opening...

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (published in The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Penguin, 2018) When despair for the...

I think Cinco de Mayo is a lot like Saint Patrick's Day: it's bigger in American than it is in its origin country; people of all...

After I Came Back from Iceland by Sheenagh Pugh published in Poetry For the Earth, edited by Sara Dunn with Alan Scholefield, Fawcett...

Do you remember the first movie you saw in a theater? The first movie date you had? How about the first DVD movie you bought? The movie...

In Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler (published in her book, Bitter Angel, North Point Press, 1990) Gardens are also good places to sulk....

After Looking into a Book Belonging to My Great-Grandfather, Eli Eliakim Plutzik by Hyam Plutzik (published in his book, Apples from...

Although most people know it as "Dogs Playing Poker," Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's 1903 painting is actually called A Friend in Need. It...

On the Recovery of Canis Familiaris from Sputnik 2, 1957 by Bailey Blumenstock (published in The Maine Review, Issue 6.1, 2020) Before...

I tell my children by Victoria Chang published in her 2020 book, Obit (Copper Canyon Press) I tell my children that hope is like a blue...