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How to Live
Allen Ginsberg, “Blessed be the Muses”
17 Mar 2025
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
13 Mar 2025
Louise Glück, “Matins” and “Vespers”
10 Mar 2025
Laurie Sheck, “The Subway Platform”
6 Mar 2025
How Death Comes (a poem from 1250)
5 Mar 2025
A Love Poem that Still Stings After 700 Years
3 Mar 2025
An anonymous poem of incredible cynicism, from c. 1325
30 Jan 2025
“A Friar Complains” (anonymous poem from c. 1500)
23 Jan 2025
Thomas Wyatt, “What does this mean?”
20 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: 3 Sonnets on Love, Lust, and Exhaustion
17 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
Ben Jonson, from “The Triumph of Charis”
9 Jan 2025
George Herbert, “The Flower”
30 Dec 2024
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
23 Dec 2024
Jonathan Swift, “A Description of the Morning”
19 Dec 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
18 Dec 2024
Mary Leapor, “Mira’s Will”
9 Dec 2024
William Wordsworth, Three Sonnets on How to Live
15 Nov 2024
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
7 Nov 2024
Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
1 Nov 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”
31 Oct 2024
Emily Dickinson, “The Props assist the House”
30 Oct 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
27 Oct 2024
Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”
26 Sep 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Hapax”
11 Sep 2024
Vernon Watkins, 2 Poems for Wine & Festival
10 Sep 2024
R. S. Thomas, “The Moor”
4 Sep 2024
Dylan Thomas, “In my craft or sullen art”
2 Sep 2024
Robert Lowell, “History”
1 Sep 2024
Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse”
29 Aug 2024
Denise Levertov, “O Taste and See”
28 Aug 2024
Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”
25 Aug 2024
James Merrill, from “The Book of Ephraim”
23 Aug 2024
A. R. Ammons, “The City Limits”
22 Aug 2024
Gary Snyder, “August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer”
9 Aug 2024
Robert Haas, “Meditation at Lagunitas”
31 Jul 2024
Louise Glück, “Summer Night”
28 Jul 2024
Duncan Forbes, “Recension Day”
24 Jul 2024
Jane Kenyon, “Let Evening Come”
22 Jul 2024
George Herbert, “The Pearl”
20 Jun 2024
William Cartwright, “No Platonique Love”
18 Jun 2024
John Bunyan, “Valiant-for-Truth’s Song”
9 Jun 2024
Andrew Marvell, “The Garden”
6 Jun 2024
Thomas Traherne, “The Preparative”
4 Jun 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
29 May 2024
William Cowper, “The Contrite Heart”
22 May 2024
Edward Fitzgerald, from “The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam”
3 May 2024
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
30 Apr 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
29 Apr 2024
Emily Dickinson, “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”
28 Apr 2024
Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill”
26 Apr 2024
John Masefield, “Sea-Fever”
29 Mar 2024
Wallace Stevens, “How to Live. What to Do”
25 Mar 2024
Louise Bogan, “The Alchemist”
19 Feb 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Spring, Coast Range”
9 Feb 2024
Stephen Spender, “I think continually of those who were truly great”
7 Feb 2024
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